Serious unclassified road crash in Sandwell B69 on 16 March 2020 at 07:47 involving a Ford B-Max
A Ford B-Max and a Yamaha DT 125 R motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 07:47 on Monday 16 March 2020. The 21-year-old male rider of the Yamaha DT 125 R motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Mar 2020
- Monday, 07:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford B-Max and Yamaha DT 125 R
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50952, longitude -2.05651, in the B69 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rowley Regis. It is one of the crashes that make up the St. Thomas's, Dudley, DY2 7NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020200951230
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 2006.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 15 July 2006
11 m awayRef 200620K071202
Serious
Suzuki TL 1000 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 28 October 2011
21 m awayRef 201120K502481
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 4 November 1998
24 m awayRef 199820K216201
Slight
Iveco crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 1 March 2010
30 m awayRef 201020K020512
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 February 2016
53 m awayRef 2016200048237
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 8 October 1997
64 m awayRef 19972097K1738
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford B-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Yamaha DT 125 R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha DT 125 R)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2020200951230 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.