Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B69 on 12 January 2016 at 21:23 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis crashed on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 21:23 on Tuesday 12 January 2016. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2016
- Tuesday, 21:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49815, longitude -2.0085, in the B69 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oldbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oldbury, Sandwell, B69 4DZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200042035
- Council area
- Sandwell
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 1990.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 29 November 1990
28 m awayRef 19902090K2255
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 9 December 1993
28 m awayRef 19932093K2052
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 10 April 1983
28 m awayRef 19832000K1117
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 30 January 2006
49 m awayRef 200620K014202
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 14 February 2025
54 m awayRef 2025201554524
Serious
Fiat Bravo crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 October 2005
60 m awayRef 200520K100402
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016200042035 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 2016.