Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY9 on 8 December 2016 at 23:29 involving a car
A car and a goods vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 23:29 on Thursday 8 December 2016. The 24-year-old male driver of the goods vehicle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 23:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and goods vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45408, longitude -2.12496, in the DY9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stourbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lye & Stourbridge North, Dudley, DY9 7PD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200141294
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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, 15 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 December 2003.
Serious
Fiat Coupe crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 5 December 2003
15 m awayRef 200320J106902
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 6 January 2011
15 m awayRef 201120J000441
Slight
Rover Sterling crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 28 December 2001
15 m awayRef 200120J605102
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 4 August 2011
34 m awayRef 201120J009031
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 4 March 2001
39 m awayRef 200120J075102
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 18 January 2002
64 m awayRef 200220J010002
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, goods vehicle occupant (weight unknown), in vehicle 2 (Goods vehicle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016200141294 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dudley road accident statistics for 2016.