Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B67 on 22 December 2012 at 12:18 involving a Peugeot 407
A Peugeot 407 and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 12:18 on Saturday 22 December 2012. A 53-year-old male passenger in the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 12:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 407 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46948, longitude -1.97995, in the B67 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bearwood, Sandwell, B67 5HR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220K016312
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 67 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 9 December 1985
67 m awayRef 19852000K3395
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 21 November 1990
67 m awayRef 19902090K2174
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 16 January 1984
67 m awayRef 19842000K0135
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 29 May 1984
67 m awayRef 19842000K1419
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 February 1983
67 m awayRef 19832000K0549
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 10 March 1993
81 m awayRef 19932093K0378
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 407
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 53, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201220K016312 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sandwell road accident statistics for 2012.