Unclassified road crash in Walsall WV13 on 9 April 2018 at 00:12 involving a Lexus IS220
A Lexus IS220 crashed on an unclassified road in Walsall at 00:12 on Monday 9 April 2018. The 49-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2018
- Monday, 00:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexus IS220
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58339, longitude -2.03942, in the WV13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Willenhall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Willenhall, Walsall, WV13 2QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200298071
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 26 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 March 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A462 in Walsall, 22 March 1985
26 m awayRef 19852000H0611
Slight
Car crash on the A462 in Walsall, 6 September 1987
26 m awayRef 19872000H1073
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 9 February 2009
37 m awayRef 200920H010502
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 16 February 2012
37 m awayRef 201220H001932
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 9 February 2016
42 m awayRef 2016200047486
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 15 September 2000
43 m awayRef 200020H066502
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexus IS220
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,231 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Lexus IS220)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2018200298071 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 2018.