A38 crash in Birmingham on 22 May 1989 at 06:10 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A38 in Birmingham at 06:10 on Monday 22 May 1989. The 33-year-old male driver of the van, a 60-year-old male passenger in the van and the 30-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 May 1989
- Monday, 06:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44135, longitude -1.93964, in the B29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19892000B0895
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 29 March 1980
At the same spotRef 19802000B0986
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 14 August 1991
At the same spotRef 19912091B5271
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 1 October 1993
At the same spotRef 19932093B1646
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 25 January 1994
At the same spotRef 19942094S0203
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B3800 in Birmingham, 22 November 2025
14 m awayRef 2025201672315
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 9 February 1998
14 m awayRef 199820E041901
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 60, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, 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 19892000B0895 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 1989.