Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B64 on 24 July 2025 at 22:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A motorcycle and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 22:45 on Thursday 24 July 2025. The 35-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was 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
- 24 Jul 2025
- Thursday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46445, longitude -2.07405, in the B64 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cradley Heath. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cradley Heath & Old Hill, Sandwell, B64 7BE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201670645
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 March 2016.
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on a C road in Sandwell, 14 March 2016
4 m awayRef 2016200057165
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 24 February 2007
11 m awayRef 200720K023502
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 2 March 2001
11 m awayRef 200120K078902
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 13 October 2022
13 m awayRef 2022201273166
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 19 November 1999
17 m awayRef 199920K145402
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 June 2004
26 m awayRef 200420K075102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (engine size unknown), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2025201670645 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.