A4196 crash in Sandwell on 24 February 2020 at 07:35 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A4196 in Sandwell at 07:35 on Monday 24 February 2020. The 50-year-old female driver of the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 2020
- Monday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52613, longitude -2.0054, in the B71 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Bromwich Central, Sandwell, B70 8TQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020200937894
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4196
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 September 2025.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 22 September 2025
11 m awayRef 2025201647212
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 3 June 2018
17 m awayRef 2018200300870
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 28 February 2009
20 m awayRef 200920K016501
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 8 January 2015
20 m awayRef 201520K001375
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A41 in Sandwell, 11 May 1999
20 m awayRef 199920K071201
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 17 November 2005
20 m awayRef 200520K113401
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020200937894 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 2020.