Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B66 on 26 June 2025 at 10:27 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Suzuki Vitara were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 10:27 on Thursday 26 June 2025. The 28-year-old male driver of the Suzuki Vitara was 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
- 26 Jun 2025
- Thursday, 10:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Suzuki Vitara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4836, longitude -1.95475, in the B66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Edgbaston, Birmingham, B16 9SS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201608304
- Council area
- Sandwell
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 2018.
Slight
Peugeot 3008 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 9 May 2018
4 m awayRef 2018200303093
Serious
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 16 June 2018
15 m awayRef 2018200306287
Slight
Porsche Cayman crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 6 February 2017
44 m awayRef 2017200157755
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 20 August 2005
62 m awayRef 200520K083502
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 9 December 2021
63 m awayRef 2021201125206
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 21 July 2006
70 m awayRef 200620K073102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,373 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Vitara)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025201608304 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.