A463 crash in Wolverhampton on 30 July 2017 at 09:42 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Kia Ceed were involved in a crash on the A463 in Wolverhampton at 09:42 on Sunday 30 July 2017. The 57-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2017
- Sunday, 09:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Kia Ceed
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54615, longitude -2.10077, in the WV14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ettingshall South & Spring Vale, Wolverhampton, WV14 9XE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wolverhampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200213499
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 463
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 February 2023.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A463 in Wolverhampton, 2 February 2023
2 m awayRef 2023201283957
Serious
Car crash on the A463 in Dudley, 25 May 2003
4 m awayRef 200320J052401
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A463 in Wolverhampton, 25 September 2018
7 m awayRef 2018200350218
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A463 in Wolverhampton, 5 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025201664171
Slight
Lexmoto LXR crash on the A463 in Wolverhampton, 13 December 2024
9 m awayRef 2024201530404
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 7 March 2016
12 m awayRef 2016200051579
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Kia Ceed
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2017200213499 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 2017.