A4098 crash in Walsall on 24 May 2014 at 23:24 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the A4098 in Walsall at 23:24 on Saturday 24 May 2014. The 23-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 2014
- Saturday, 23:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55658, longitude -2.05366, in the WV14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bilston, Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bilston South, Wolverhampton, WV14 0TT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201420H005394
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4098
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A4098 in Walsall, 17 January 2006
At the same spotRef 200620H015802
Slight
HGV crash on the A4098 in Walsall, 6 February 2003
At the same spotRef 200320H010902
Serious
Car crash on the A4098 in Walsall, 9 September 2008
At the same spotRef 200820H054802
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A4098 in Walsall, 22 November 2002
At the same spotRef 200220H084302
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A4098 in Sandwell, 13 February 2017
5 m awayRef 2017200159785
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 15 August 2006
14 m awayRef 200620H054302
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
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 201420H005394 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 2014.