Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B66 on 16 July 2025 at 14:23 involving a Mini Mini Cooper SE
A Mini Mini Cooper SE and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 14:23 on Wednesday 16 July 2025. A 41-year-old female passenger in the Honda Civic was 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
- 16 Jul 2025
- Wednesday, 14:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Mini Cooper SE and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50076, longitude -1.96618, in the B66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Smethwick, Sandwell, B66 1DT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201617667
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 August 1990.
Serious
CZ 125 D/L crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 17 August 1990
10 m awayRef 19902000K1504
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 28 April 1990
10 m awayRef 19902000K0752
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 4 August 1987
10 m awayRef 19872000K1170
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 13 July 1989
10 m awayRef 19892000K1253
Slight
Ford Capri crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 1 June 1990
10 m awayRef 19902000K0978
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 26 June 1981
10 m awayRef 19812000K1378
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Mini Cooper SE
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025201617667 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.