Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B70 on 24 November 2016 at 17:15 involving a Mercedes ML Class
A Mercedes ML Class and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 17:15 on Thursday 24 November 2016. The 47-year-old male driver of the car 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
- 24 Nov 2016
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes ML Class and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51527, longitude -2.01267, in the B70 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greets Green & Lyng, Sandwell, B70 8BG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200137181
- 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 19 January 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 19 January 2017
1 m awayRef 2017200151223
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 October 2018
2 m awayRef 2018200350352
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 5 October 2001
4 m awayRef 200120K156001
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 October 1998
4 m awayRef 199820K208001
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 16 September 1998
4 m awayRef 199820K178701
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 15 March 2013
4 m awayRef 201320K003533
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes ML Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,688 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 2016200137181 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.