A5 crash in Walsall on 8 October 2015 at 16:30 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry, a Peugeot 107 and a Renault Trafic van were involved in a crash on the A5 in Walsall at 16:30 on Thursday 8 October 2015. The 33-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 107 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 2015
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volvo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65621, longitude -1.94171, in the WS8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brownhills, Walsall, WS8 7LR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201520H009295
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 2 metres away, was a fatal crash on 6 December 2023.
Fatal
Audi A3 crash on the A5 in Walsall, 6 December 2023
2 m awayRef 2023201383549
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 13 June 1981
40 m awayRef 19812000H1164
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 22 July 1980
40 m awayRef 19802000H1359
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5 in Walsall, 29 January 1995
60 m awayRef 19952095H0148
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A5 in Walsall, 6 December 1985
117 m awayRef 19852000H2632
Serious
Minibus crash on the A5 in Walsall, 22 January 1984
140 m awayRef 19842000H0169
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,777 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 107)
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 201520H009295 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 2015.