Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY9 on 30 October 2023 at 07:41 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 07:41 on Monday 30 October 2023. The 24-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2023
- Monday, 07:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44802, longitude -2.13044, in the DY9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stourbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lye & Stourbridge North, Dudley, DY9 7PD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023201444644
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 July 2017.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 6 July 2017
14 m awayRef 2017200205977
Slight
Bentley Continental crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 16 July 2025
29 m awayRef 2025201617387
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 22 November 2004
33 m awayRef 200420J093302
Serious
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 12 February 2011
47 m awayRef 201120J001891
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 26 January 2020
50 m awayRef 2020200936310
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 26 October 2000
53 m awayRef 200020J083302
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2023201444644 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.