Unclassified road crash in Sandwell DY4 on 10 May 2018 at 07:57 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 07:57 on Thursday 10 May 2018. The 54-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo and an 18-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 May 2018
- Thursday, 07:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53607, longitude -2.0426, in the DY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tipton.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200301352
- Council area
- Sandwell
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 April 2022.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 29 April 2022
28 m awayRef 2022201180175
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 5 March 1994
34 m awayRef 19942094K0390
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 10 December 1983
34 m awayRef 19832000K3374
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 22 November 1983
34 m awayRef 19832000K3123
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 13 March 1989
34 m awayRef 19892000K0461
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 2 October 1988
34 m awayRef 19882000K1667
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018200301352 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sandwell road accident statistics for 2018.