A4031 crash in Sandwell on 17 July 2025 at 09:00 involving a Mini Cooper
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2025
- Thursday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53243, longitude -1.98673, in the B71 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Charlemont & Grove Vale, Sandwell, B71 1AH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201617277
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4031
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 2023.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A4031 in Sandwell, 19 May 2023
8 m awayRef 2023201314101
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4031 in Sandwell, 14 July 2022
9 m awayRef 2022201202506
Slight
Peugeot 5008 crash on the A4031 in Sandwell, 9 January 2023
9 m awayRef 2023201289066
Slight
E-scooter crash on the A4031 in Sandwell, 5 May 2024
10 m awayRef 2024201440355
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A4031 in Sandwell, 24 July 2008
11 m awayRef 200820K063201
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A4031 in Sandwell, 28 April 1998
13 m awayRef 199820K080401
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025201617277 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.