A435 crash in Birmingham on 30 December 1988 at 19:05 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A435 in Birmingham at 19:05 on Friday 30 December 1988. A 21-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 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
- 30 Dec 1988
- Friday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41525, longitude -1.88822, in the B14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19882000B2132
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 435
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 1 February 1992
At the same spotRef 19922092B0241
Fatal
Car crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 24 March 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000B0481
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 9 January 1990
At the same spotRef 19902000B0054
Slight
Bus crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 21 August 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000B1443
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 1 May 1997
At the same spotRef 19972097E1059
Serious
Car crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 27 November 1988
At the same spotRef 19882000B1888
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 19882000B2132 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 1988.