Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY5 on 3 January 2023 at 12:35 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 12:35 on Tuesday 3 January 2023. The 36-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jan 2023
- Tuesday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47737, longitude -2.1169, in the DY5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brierley Hill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brierley Hill & Wordsley South, Dudley, DY5 1SZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023201284976
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- A
- Second road number
- 4100
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2024.
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A4100 in Dudley, 11 October 2024
6 m awayRef 2024201502857
Slight
Lexus GS300 crash on the A4100 in Dudley, 1 February 2003
13 m awayRef 200320J012301
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4100 in Dudley, 22 April 2006
20 m awayRef 200620J036201
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4100 in Dudley, 10 July 2004
20 m awayRef 200420J064901
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A4100 in Dudley, 15 September 2003
25 m awayRef 200320J090301
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4100 in Dudley, 5 November 2005
45 m awayRef 200520J110601
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 2023201284976 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 2023.