B4147 crash in Birmingham on 12 May 1992 at 19:20 involving an MG Metro
An MG Metro and a Honda VT250F motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4147 in Birmingham at 19:20 on Tuesday 12 May 1992. The 32-year-old male rider of the Honda VT250F motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 1992
- Tuesday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- MG Metro and Honda VT250F
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49156, longitude -1.81144, in the B34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19922092E0752
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4147
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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 1989.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B4147 in Birmingham, 29 March 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000E0622
Serious
Bedford crash on the B4147 in Birmingham, 9 December 1991
At the same spotRef 19912091E5382
Serious
Peugeot 305 crash on the B4147 in Birmingham, 10 April 1993
At the same spotRef 19932093E0639
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4147 in Birmingham, 12 April 1996
At the same spotRef 19962096D1019
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4147 in Birmingham, 16 August 2012
At the same spotRef 201220T040012
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B4147 in Birmingham, 16 November 2025
7 m awayRef 2025201669175
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MG Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Honda VT250F
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 249 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Honda VT250F)
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 19922092E0752 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 1992.