Unclassified road crash in Walsall WS10 on 27 March 2023 at 01:01 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Walsall at 01:01 on Monday 27 March 2023. A 20-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Mar 2023
- Monday, 01:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56977, longitude -2.02768, in the WS10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darlaston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wednesbury, Sandwell, WS10 9NP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023201416037
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 1984.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 21 May 1984
27 m awayRef 19842000H1083
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 28 August 1993
27 m awayRef 19932093H1077
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 2 August 2024
48 m awayRef 2024201476983
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 13 August 2014
62 m awayRef 201420H008814
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 11 June 2015
65 m awayRef 201520H006315
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 22 July 2025
68 m awayRef 2025201620435
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2023201416037 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.