Serious unclassified road crash in Dudley DY6 on 23 January 2016 at 09:21 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 09:21 on Saturday 23 January 2016. The 49-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Jan 2016
- Saturday, 09:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49346, longitude -2.16667, in the DY6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingswinford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingswinford South, Dudley, DY6 9NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200042625
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A491 in Dudley, 1 November 2013
2 m awayRef 201320J011733
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A491 in Dudley, 8 January 2002
2 m awayRef 200220J004602
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A491 in Dudley, 13 July 2007
2 m awayRef 200720J054702
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A491 in Dudley, 22 October 2009
2 m awayRef 200920J054902
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A491 in Dudley, 18 September 2007
2 m awayRef 200720J072402
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A491 in Dudley, 10 July 1999
11 m awayRef 199920J053702
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2016200042625 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 2016.