Serious A4196 crash in Sandwell on 30 November 2025 at 04:30 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift and a car were involved in a crash on the A4196 in Sandwell at 04:30 on Sunday 30 November 2025. A male passenger in the Suzuki Swift was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Nov 2025
- Sunday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Swift and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54587, longitude -2.01812, in the WS10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wednesbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wednesbury, Sandwell, WS10 7BF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201676074
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4196
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2021.
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 18 July 2021
1 m awayRef 2021201107584
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 29 September 2015
5 m awayRef 201520K013735
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 22 September 2006
5 m awayRef 200620K084101
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 22 March 2007
5 m awayRef 200720K026601
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 12 May 2006
5 m awayRef 200620K044301
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A41 in Sandwell, 26 May 2003
5 m awayRef 200320K056201
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2025201676074 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.