Serious A462 crash in Walsall on 20 July 2016 at 20:58 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Kawasaki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A462 in Walsall at 20:58 on Wednesday 20 July 2016. The 29-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Jul 2016
- Wednesday, 20:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57815, longitude -2.04383, in the WV13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Willenhall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Willenhall, Walsall, WV13 2QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200095155
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 462
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 29 June 2017.
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A462 in Walsall, 29 June 2017
1 m awayRef 2017200206177
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A462 in Walsall, 12 September 2010
2 m awayRef 201020H007910
Slight
Proton Proton crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 12 September 1998
2 m awayRef 199820H123601
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 28 March 1998
2 m awayRef 199820H046001
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A462 in Walsall, 6 October 2006
11 m awayRef 200620H066802
Serious
Skoda Kamiq crash on the A462 in Walsall, 13 May 2025
26 m awayRef 2025201591490
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- 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 2016200095155 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.