Unclassified road crash in Walsall WS5 on 10 August 2025 at 13:16 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Walsall at 13:16 on Sunday 10 August 2025. A 61-year-old female passenger in the Skoda Octavia 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
- 10 Aug 2025
- Sunday, 13:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Octavia and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56515, longitude -1.94105, in the WS5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walsall.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201627289
- Council area
- Walsall
- 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, 155 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 2022.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 22 February 2022
155 m awayRef 2022201221469
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Jaguar XK Series crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 18 August 2017
204 m awayRef 2017200229582
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 28 January 1989
229 m awayRef 19892000H0144
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 4 August 1991
268 m awayRef 19912091H1062
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 5 February 1996
333 m awayRef 19962096H0215
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 21 October 2003
335 m awayRef 200320H075001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2025201627289 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 2025.