A462 crash in Walsall on 10 June 2014 at 14:58 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and an Iveco Daily van were involved in a crash on the A462 in Walsall at 14:58 on Tuesday 10 June 2014. The 41-year-old male driver of the Iveco Daily van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jun 2014
- Tuesday, 14:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Iveco Daily
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56081, longitude -2.02977, in the WS10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wednesbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wednesbury, Sandwell, WS10 9NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201420H005754
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 462
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 2001.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A462 in Walsall, 26 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200120H072902
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A462 in Sandwell, 7 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200420K082601
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A462 in Sandwell, 5 February 2015
At the same spotRef 201520K002215
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A462 in Walsall, 12 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200920H048202
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A462 in Sandwell, 14 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200720K094701
Slight
Scania crash on the A462 in Sandwell, 29 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199920K066101
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Iveco Daily
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,287 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Iveco Daily)
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 201420H005754 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.