Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B66 on 23 December 2023 at 15:25 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 15:25 on Saturday 23 December 2023. The 30-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2023
- Saturday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49237, longitude -1.96194, in the B66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Soho & Victoria, Sandwell, B66 3PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023201392471
- Council area
- Sandwell
- 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
- 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
- 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, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2023.
Slight
Hyundai ix35 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 August 2023
57 m awayRef 2023201377892
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Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 8 February 1992
76 m awayRef 19922092K0237
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 8 May 1981
85 m awayRef 19812000K1199
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 15 January 1981
85 m awayRef 19812000K0109
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 1 June 1980
122 m awayRef 19802000K1141
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 13 January 1997
122 m awayRef 19972097K0116
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2023201392471 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 2023.