Unclassified road crash in Sandwell WS5 on 4 November 2018 at 04:55 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 04:55 on Sunday 4 November 2018. The 30-year-old male driver of the Audi A4 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2018
- Sunday, 04:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55936, longitude -1.97066, in the WS5 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Palfrey & The Delves, Walsall, WS5 4PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200807495
- 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
- Other 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2025.
Slight
Sym Jet crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 8 September 2025
13 m awayRef 2025201639223
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 December 2013
16 m awayRef 201320K015713
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 18 January 2009
16 m awayRef 200920K003601
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 21 April 1991
27 m awayRef 19912091K0695
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 28 October 1988
27 m awayRef 19882000K1820
Serious
Audi 80 crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 3 April 2009
35 m awayRef 200920H015301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
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 2018200807495 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.