Serious A4148 crash in Walsall on 18 July 2016 at 19:10 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord and a Lambretta motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4148 in Walsall at 19:10 on Monday 18 July 2016. The 49-year-old male rider of the Lambretta motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jul 2016
- Monday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Accord and Lambretta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58362, longitude -1.99042, in the WS2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walsall. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Matthew's, Walsall, WS1 1NN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200090050
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4148
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 2019.
Slight
Ford S-Max crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 29 August 2019
3 m awayRef 2019200890903
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 27 April 2009
4 m awayRef 200920H018601
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 6 October 2004
4 m awayRef 200420H064701
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 15 October 2003
4 m awayRef 200320H071501
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 5 March 2002
4 m awayRef 200220H017401
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 30 June 2003
4 m awayRef 200320H046801
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Lambretta
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 32 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Lambretta)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016200090050 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 2016.