A458 crash in Dudley on 15 July 2025 at 17:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on the A458 in Dudley at 17:00 on Tuesday 15 July 2025. The 46-year-old female driver of the Mercedes A Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2025
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45543, longitude -2.03857, in the B62 postcode district and within the built-up area of Halesowen.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201616812
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 458
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 2009.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A458 in Dudley, 22 May 2009
15 m awayRef 200920J028602
Slight
Car crash on the A458 in Dudley, 30 July 1989
42 m awayRef 19892000J1201
Serious
Lorry crash on the A458 in Dudley, 13 September 1983
42 m awayRef 19832000J2097
Slight
Peugeot 504 crash on the A458 in Dudley, 12 September 1990
42 m awayRef 19902090J1570
Serious
Car crash on the A458 in Dudley, 13 October 1989
42 m awayRef 19892000J1651
Serious
MG Metro crash on the A458 in Dudley, 11 June 1991
42 m awayRef 19912091J0950
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2025201616812 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.