Serious B4284 crash in Birmingham on 9 February 1995 at 13:05 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a car were involved in a crash on the B4284 in Birmingham at 13:05 on Thursday 9 February 1995. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured. Two of them were pedestrians.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Feb 1995
- Thursday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and car
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47101, longitude -1.92341, in the B15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19952095F0273
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4284
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B4284 in Birmingham, 31 August 1984
At the same spotRef 19842000C1885
Slight
Car crash on the B4284 in Birmingham, 3 June 1980
At the same spotRef 19802000C1193
Slight
Bus crash on the B4284 in Birmingham, 26 May 1982
At the same spotRef 19822000C1060
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the B4284 in Birmingham, 10 September 2006
20 m awayRef 200620F200602
Slight
Porsche Cayenne crash on the B4284 in Birmingham, 15 May 2024
23 m awayRef 2024201444563
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B4284 in Birmingham, 6 July 2019
27 m awayRef 2019200882515
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 84, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 74, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 19952095F0273 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.