A491 crash in Dudley on 7 September 2017 at 13:45 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Land Rover Freelander were involved in a crash on the A491 in Dudley at 13:45 on Thursday 7 September 2017. The 22-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2017
- Thursday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46696, longitude -2.15193, in the DY8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stourbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Amblecote, Dudley, DY8 4DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200225670
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 491
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A491 in Dudley, 17 June 2003
6 m awayRef 200320J055402
Slight
Yamaha CS 50 Jog crash on the A491 in Dudley, 24 March 2011
22 m awayRef 201120J003861
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A491 in Dudley, 14 January 2009
28 m awayRef 200920J002702
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A491 in Dudley, 8 March 2011
30 m awayRef 201120J002721
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 10 February 2012
30 m awayRef 201220J001632
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A491 in Dudley, 16 May 2013
30 m awayRef 201320J005353
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2017200225670 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 2017.