A4040 crash in Birmingham on 19 January 1995 at 20:51 involving a Renault Espace
A Renault Espace crashed on the A4040 in Birmingham at 20:51 on Thursday 19 January 1995. The 48-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jan 1995
- Thursday, 20:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Espace
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44855, longitude -1.94699, in the B17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19952095F0124
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4129
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 22 June 1983
At the same spotRef 19832000C1325
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 30 May 1995
At the same spotRef 19952095F1110
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4129 in Birmingham, 28 December 1995
At the same spotRef 19952095F2797
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 2 September 1993
At the same spotRef 19932093C1315
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 15 May 1996
At the same spotRef 19962096E1283
Slight
Car crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 30 August 1984
At the same spotRef 19842000B2458
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Espace
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Espace)
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 19952095F0124 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 1995.