A4040 crash in Birmingham on 15 July 1995 at 13:05 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series, a Vauxhall Cavalier and a Vauxhall Carlton were involved in a crash on the A4040 in Birmingham at 13:05 on Saturday 15 July 1995. The 40-year-old male driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 1995
- Saturday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Rover 200 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50518, longitude -1.94103, in the B21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19952095F1423
- 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
- T or staggered 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 24 April 1989.
Slight
Minibus crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 24 April 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000C0493
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 5 March 1994
At the same spotRef 19942094W0566
Slight
Car crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 8 June 1987
At the same spotRef 19872000C0686
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 25 February 1996
At the same spotRef 19962096F0431
Slight
Renault Kadjar crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 4 February 2025
36 m awayRef 2025201551650
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 26 December 2015
48 m awayRef 2015200038523
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 19952095F1423 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.