Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B67 on 23 June 2025 at 15:39 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Kia Sportage were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 15:39 on Monday 23 June 2025. A 12-year-old female passenger in the Kia Sportage and the 40-year-old female driver of the Kia Sportage were 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 Jun 2025
- Monday, 15:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Kia Sportage
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47925, longitude -1.98513, in the B67 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Smethwick, Sandwell, B67 6RJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201607053
- Council area
- Sandwell
- 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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 September 2001.
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 16 September 2001
7 m awayRef 200120K165602
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 1 April 2024
13 m awayRef 2024201444112
Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 1 November 2006
14 m awayRef 200620K104102
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 20 June 1998
14 m awayRef 199820K116801
Serious
Ford crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 April 1991
16 m awayRef 19912091K0726
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 5 October 1995
16 m awayRef 19952095K6137
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sportage)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sportage)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025201607053 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 2025.