A454 crash in Walsall on 26 December 2017 at 22:30 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a car were involved in a crash on the A454 in Walsall at 22:30 on Tuesday 26 December 2017. The 31-year-old male driver of the Toyota Avensis was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58189, longitude -2.03043, in the WV13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Short Heath, Walsall, WS2 0GB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200259348
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 454
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2025.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 1 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025201676508
Serious
Jaguar X Type crash on the A454 in Walsall, 20 February 2014
11 m awayRef 201420H602904
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A454 in Walsall, 30 January 2008
11 m awayRef 200820H012002
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A454 in Walsall, 4 December 2019
18 m awayRef 2019200921571
Slight
Audi Q3 crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 14 June 2025
46 m awayRef 2025201602699
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 24 June 2009
46 m awayRef 200920H039102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
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 2017200259348 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.