Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B69 on 7 October 2016 at 19:14 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 19:14 on Friday 7 October 2016. The 52-year-old male driver of the Audi A4 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2016
- Friday, 19:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49685, longitude -2.03184, in the B69 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rowley, Sandwell, B69 2JN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200116757
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2018.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 January 2018
1 m awayRef 2018200276630
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Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 4 February 2022
2 m awayRef 2022201163148
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 5 January 2022
3 m awayRef 2022201213916
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 1 December 2015
4 m awayRef 2015200035455
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 2 September 2018
4 m awayRef 2018200338314
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 12 February 2006
6 m awayRef 200620K016302
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
- 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 2016200116757 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.