Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B65 on 9 October 2025 at 15:10 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane, a Mercedes E Class and a Vauxhall Mokka were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 15:10 on Thursday 9 October 2025. A 28-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes E Class and the 51-year-old male driver of the Mercedes E Class were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2025
- Thursday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Renault Megane and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48891, longitude -2.05504, in the B65 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rowley Regis. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rowley, Sandwell, B65 8JB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201652391
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4171
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 24 July 2001.
Serious
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 24 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200120K138502
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4171 in Sandwell, 15 May 2007
10 m awayRef 200720K053902
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4171 in Sandwell, 10 September 1999
14 m awayRef 199920K113402
Slight
Car crash on the B4171 in Sandwell, 8 January 1999
14 m awayRef 199920K005301
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4171 in Sandwell, 10 February 2017
18 m awayRef 2017200158737
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B4171 in Sandwell, 14 November 2008
20 m awayRef 200820K108502
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes E Class)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes E Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025201652391 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.