Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B67 on 16 November 2025 at 19:39 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Puma were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 19:39 on Sunday 16 November 2025. A 24-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 2025
- Sunday, 19:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Ford Puma
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49051, longitude -1.98016, in the B67 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Smethwick, Sandwell, B67 6RJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201669402
- 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
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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 November 2019.
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 13 November 2019
5 m awayRef 2019200909854
Serious
Hyundai Kona crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 8 January 2023
9 m awayRef 2023201287160
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 17 April 2008
16 m awayRef 200820K041202
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 25 November 2010
21 m awayRef 201020K015210
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 21 October 1989
55 m awayRef 19892000K1908
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 5 February 1985
55 m awayRef 19852000K0418
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025201669402 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.