Unclassified road crash in Walsall WV12 on 19 July 2018 at 09:12 involving a Ford Transit van
Two Ford Transit vans were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Walsall at 09:12 on Thursday 19 July 2018. The 33-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 65-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 2018
- Thursday, 09:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61656, longitude -2.03633, in the WV12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Willenhall. It is one of the crashes that make up the New Invention, Walsall, WV12 5LB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200340698
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 2005.
Slight
MCW crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 16 April 2005
8 m awayRef 200520H029402
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 1 July 1981
64 m awayRef 19812000H1412
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 17 December 1985
64 m awayRef 19852000H2759
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 16 June 2001
80 m awayRef 200120H092202
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 24 December 2013
80 m awayRef 201320H500053
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 28 February 2003
80 m awayRef 200320H015502
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
- 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 2018200340698 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.