Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B29 on 7 November 1980 at 23:40 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 23:40 on Friday 7 November 1980. A 65-year-old female passenger 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 1980
- Friday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43236, longitude -1.92494, in the B29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19802000B3113
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dry
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 1984.
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Serious
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Slight
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Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 31 December 1980
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 19802000B3113 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Birmingham road accident statistics for 1980.