Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY1 on 8 December 2018 at 11:40 involving an Opel
An Opel and an Audi Q7 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 11:40 on Saturday 8 December 2018. The 29-year-old female driver of the Audi Q7 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2018
- Saturday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Opel and Audi Q7
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50897, longitude -2.08625, in the DY1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dudley. It is one of the crashes that make up the St. James's, Dudley, DY2 7AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200352876
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2004.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4587 in Dudley, 7 October 2004
3 m awayRef 200420J092601
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 15 March 2008
3 m awayRef 200820J024301
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 2 March 2008
3 m awayRef 200820J020901
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 29 September 2025
8 m awayRef 2025201648885
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 3 April 2025
13 m awayRef 2025201670476
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 15 September 2014
17 m awayRef 201420J010984
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Opel
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Audi Q7
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi Q7)
- 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 2018200352876 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 2018.