Unclassified road crash in Solihull CV7 on 24 March 2016 at 20:25 involving a Volvo V40
A car and a Volvo V40 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Solihull at 20:25 on Thursday 24 March 2016. The 33-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2016
- Thursday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volvo V40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42802, longitude -1.64123, in the CV7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200056277
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 221 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 22 December 1998
221 m awayRef 199820L134301
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 4 June 2006
272 m awayRef 200620L087801
Slight
Kia Sedona crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 26 February 2012
359 m awayRef 201220L001472
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 24 January 1983
379 m awayRef 19832000L0136
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 25 May 1982
463 m awayRef 19822000L0755
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 29 September 2001
476 m awayRef 200120L237001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,696 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016200056277 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2016.