Unclassified road crash in Walsall WS1 on 19 August 2023 at 05:34 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Walsall at 05:34 on Saturday 19 August 2023. A 52-year-old male passenger 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
- 19 Aug 2023
- Saturday, 05:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57844, longitude -1.98151, in the WS1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walsall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Palfrey & The Delves, Walsall, WS1 4AS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023201400640
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 April 2006.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 8 April 2006
3 m awayRef 200620H022201
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 1 April 2010
3 m awayRef 201020H001610
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 5 January 2012
7 m awayRef 201220H000282
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 29 August 2010
7 m awayRef 201020H007180
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 10 December 2000
13 m awayRef 200020H093101
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 2 February 2022
14 m awayRef 2022201153785
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2023201400640 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 2023.