A4123 crash in Wolverhampton on 28 December 2016 at 18:20 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Nissan Almera were involved in a crash on the A4123 in Wolverhampton at 18:20 on Wednesday 28 December 2016. A 25-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57929, longitude -2.12556, in the WV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Peters, Wolverhampton, WV2 1DR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wolverhampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200146899
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4123
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 April 2006.
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A4123 in Wolverhampton, 8 April 2006
8 m awayRef 200620G027101
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4123 in Wolverhampton, 4 December 2001
8 m awayRef 200120G155701
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 4 February 2007
8 m awayRef 200720G011901
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A4123 in Wolverhampton, 21 June 2019
11 m awayRef 2019200880359
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A459 in Wolverhampton, 26 November 2010
12 m awayRef 201020G010430
Slight
BMW 2 Series crash on the A4123 in Wolverhampton, 1 August 2019
13 m awayRef 2019200869910
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2016200146899 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 2016.