Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY1 on 17 February 2021 at 10:45 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 10:45 on Wednesday 17 February 2021. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2021
- Wednesday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51141, longitude -2.08304, in the DY1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dudley. It is one of the crashes that make up the St. James's, Dudley, DY2 7AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021201029112
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4168
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 29 August 1998
7 m awayRef 199820J149201
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 4 July 2022
8 m awayRef 2022201220041
Slight
MG ZT crash on the A4168 in Dudley, 4 November 2014
11 m awayRef 201420J011694
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A4168 in Dudley, 7 January 1998
11 m awayRef 199820J009901
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 8 June 2019
16 m awayRef 2019200878384
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4168 in Dudley, 15 August 2023
17 m awayRef 2023201361364
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2021201029112 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 2021.