A4400 crash in Birmingham on 18 February 1985 at 15:10 involving a minibus
A minibus crashed on the A4400 in Birmingham at 15:10 on Monday 18 February 1985. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 1985
- Monday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Minibus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47999, longitude -1.90719, in the B1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19852000F0271
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4400
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 1 May 1988
At the same spotRef 19882000F0299
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A6512 in Birmingham, 7 April 1995
At the same spotRef 19952095F0742
Fatal
Rover Metro crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 28 December 1997
At the same spotRef 19972097F2890
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 17 December 1992
At the same spotRef 19922092F1009
Slight
Car crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 11 November 1985
At the same spotRef 19852000F1711
Serious
Car crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 13 January 1984
At the same spotRef 19842000F0068
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
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 19852000F0271 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 1985.