Unclassified road crash in Dudley B63 on 24 April 2015 at 21:30 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A car and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 21:30 on Friday 24 April 2015. The 48-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira and a 16-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2015
- Friday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44548, longitude -2.07602, in the B63 postcode district and within the built-up area of Halesowen. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belle Vale, Dudley, B63 4JX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201520J004755
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 1999.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 6 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199920J018102
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 10 January 2009
10 m awayRef 200920J002402
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 19 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199820J036401
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 1 May 2021
22 m awayRef 2021201079882
Serious
Leyland Cars Mini crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 9 September 1990
50 m awayRef 19902090J1566
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 15 October 1988
67 m awayRef 19882000J1528
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201520J004755 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 2015.