B4210 crash in Walsall on 20 December 2020 at 15:45 involving a car
A car and a taxi were involved in a crash on the B4210 in Walsall at 15:45 on Sunday 20 December 2020. A 1-year-old female passenger in the taxi and a 41-year-old female passenger in the taxi were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2020
- Sunday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and taxi
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59053, longitude -1.98547, in the WS2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walsall. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Matthew's, Walsall, WS1 1NN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020201015745
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4210
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2001.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A34 in Walsall, 17 December 2001
1 m awayRef 200120H505301
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A34 in Walsall, 19 November 2002
10 m awayRef 200220H089501
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the B4210 in Walsall, 6 March 2015
10 m awayRef 201520H004765
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in Walsall, 14 May 2004
13 m awayRef 200420H032601
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 14 November 2016
17 m awayRef 2016200145470
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the B4210 in Walsall, 14 August 2023
18 m awayRef 2023201389392
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 1, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 41, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2020201015745 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 2020.