A4148 crash in Walsall on 15 December 2017 at 14:30 involving a Skoda Octavia
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2017
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Octavia and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58261, longitude -1.96115, in the WS1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walsall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Paddock, Walsall, WS1 2PG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200257334
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4148
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 2018.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 8 November 2018
4 m awayRef 2018200349556
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 1 January 2024
9 m awayRef 2024201456361
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 17 February 2013
13 m awayRef 201320H001723
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 10 July 2022
21 m awayRef 2022201269511
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 8 March 1990
31 m awayRef 19902000H0402
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 17 January 1982
31 m awayRef 19822000H0107
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
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 2017200257334 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 2017.