Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B66 on 18 December 2013 at 14:00 involving a Mercedes Vito van
A Mercedes Vito van and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 14:00 on Wednesday 18 December 2013. The 34-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2013
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Vito and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5004, longitude -1.97876, in the B66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Smethwick, Sandwell, B66 1DT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201320K015963
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 457
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2003.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 13 February 2003
At the same spotRef 200320K034802
Slight
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2 m awayRef 2024201520996
Serious
Car crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 18 December 2025
2 m awayRef 2025201684911
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 12 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025201672694
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 15 November 2017
5 m awayRef 2017200242716
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 10 May 2017
6 m awayRef 2017200183572
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 201320K015963 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 2013.