A4040 crash in Birmingham on 29 December 1986 at 18:17 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4040 in Birmingham at 18:17 on Monday 29 December 1986. The 33-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 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: 29 Dec 1986; Monday, 18:17
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000C2911
Council area: Birmingham
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 4040
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

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning left
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Hit object in carriageway
Kerb
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
33 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
28 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 19862000C2911 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 1986.