A4101 crash in Dudley on 28 December 2018 at 00:23 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and an Audi Q5 were involved in a crash on the A4101 in Dudley at 00:23 on Friday 28 December 2018. The 19-year-old female driver of the Audi Q5, a 16-year-old male passenger in the Audi Q5 and a 19-year-old female passenger in the Audi Q5 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2018
- Friday, 00:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Audi Q5
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50029, longitude -2.15938, in the DY6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingswinford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingswinford North & Wall Heath, Dudley, DY6 7QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200816240
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4101
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 23 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 June 2006.
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A4101 in Dudley, 16 June 2006
23 m awayRef 200620J045202
Slight
Car crash on the A4101 in Dudley, 26 December 1984
42 m awayRef 19842000J3050
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4101 in Dudley, 20 April 2005
55 m awayRef 200520J028302
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4101 in Dudley, 16 January 2000
55 m awayRef 200020J006602
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4101 in Dudley, 17 July 2021
56 m awayRef 2021201069342
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4101 in Dudley, 22 September 2002
59 m awayRef 200220J082102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi Q5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi Q5)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi Q5)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi Q5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2018200816240 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.