A4038 crash in Walsall on 17 March 2024 at 12:50 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Jaguar X Type were involved in a crash on the A4038 in Walsall at 12:50 on Sunday 17 March 2024. The 45-year-old male driver of the Jaguar X Type, a 48-year-old female passenger in the Jaguar X Type and a 17-year-old male passenger in the Jaguar X Type were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2024
- Sunday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Jaguar X Type
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57511, longitude -2.01731, in the WS2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darlaston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bentley & Darlaston North, Walsall, WS10 9UZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024201422706
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4038
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4038 in Walsall, 27 June 2004
5 m awayRef 200420H063702
Serious
Saab 9-3 crash on the A4038 in Walsall, 27 June 2014
7 m awayRef 201420H006344
Serious
Car crash on the A4038 in Walsall, 27 September 2006
8 m awayRef 200620H064202
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4038 in Walsall, 17 April 1999
8 m awayRef 199920H044202
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4038 in Walsall, 29 May 2025
15 m awayRef 2025201597884
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A4038 in Walsall, 15 January 2005
16 m awayRef 200520H004601
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jaguar X Type)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jaguar X Type)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jaguar X Type)
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 2024201422706 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 2024.