Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY3 on 13 December 2013 at 15:48 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A car and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 15:48 on Friday 13 December 2013. The 20-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2013
- Friday, 15:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5514, longitude -2.12872, in the DY3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sedgley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ettingshall South & Spring Vale, Wolverhampton, WV4 6QN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201320J013303
- Council area
- Dudley
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 1994.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 10 June 1994
58 m awayRef 19942094J0788
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 19 November 1983
58 m awayRef 19832000J2682
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 11 December 1983
58 m awayRef 19832000J2901
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 20 December 1988
58 m awayRef 19882000J1949
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 17 February 1996
58 m awayRef 19962096J0318
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 12 May 1985
58 m awayRef 19852000J1018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201320J013303 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dudley road accident statistics for 2013.