Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B69 on 26 October 2025 at 00:35 involving a Peugeot 208
A Peugeot 208 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 00:35 on Sunday 26 October 2025. The 35-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf and a 58-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2025
- Sunday, 00:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 208 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50349, longitude -2.0416, in the B69 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rowley Regis. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oldbury, Sandwell, B69 2HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201659869
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Other 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 September 2002.
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 26 September 2002
9 m awayRef 200220K119602
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 24 July 2003
28 m awayRef 200320K086502
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 January 2013
60 m awayRef 201320K002213
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 31 August 1999
92 m awayRef 199920K110802
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 6 August 2001
102 m awayRef 200120K144802
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 21 April 1991
115 m awayRef 19912091K0683
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025201659869 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.