Serious unclassified road crash in Dudley B63 on 12 July 2025 at 01:12 involving a Volvo S60
A Volvo S60 crashed on an unclassified road in Dudley at 01:12 on Saturday 12 July 2025. The 26-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jul 2025
- Saturday, 01:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo S60
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44824, longitude -2.0605, in the B63 postcode district and within the built-up area of Halesowen. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belle Vale, Dudley, B63 4JX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201614930
- Council area
- Dudley
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 65 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 2011.
Slight
Hyundai Elantra crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 30 June 2011
65 m awayRef 201120J008121
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 4 August 2017
80 m awayRef 2017200215448
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 13 July 1981
108 m awayRef 19812000J1290
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 5 May 2017
133 m awayRef 2017200180567
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 31 October 1980
135 m awayRef 19802000J2158
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 24 June 1983
135 m awayRef 19832000J1467
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo S60
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo S60)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025201614930 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 2025.