Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY1 on 18 December 2017 at 12:50 involving a Volkswagen Touareg
A Volkswagen Touareg and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 12:50 on Monday 18 December 2017. The 66-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2017
- Monday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Touareg and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52868, longitude -2.10916, in the DY1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sedgley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Upper Gornal & Woodsetton, Dudley, DY1 3TF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200258936
- 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
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 30 January 1983
18 m awayRef 19832000J0243
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 31 May 1996
18 m awayRef 19962096J0873
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 9 October 2010
19 m awayRef 201020J010360
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 24 February 2005
24 m awayRef 200520J021201
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 6 June 1998
35 m awayRef 199820J097901
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 5 March 2022
54 m awayRef 2022201226540
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touareg
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
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 2017200258936 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.