A452 crash in Birmingham on 25 June 1997 at 09:25 involving a Ford Scorpio
A Ford Scorpio and a car were involved in a crash on the A452 in Birmingham at 09:25 on Wednesday 25 June 1997. A 34-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jun 1997
- Wednesday, 09:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Scorpio and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54917, longitude -1.86133, in the B73 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Sutton Coldfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19972097D1663
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 452
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, 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 4 December 1996.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A452 in Birmingham, 4 December 1996
At the same spotRef 19962096D3223
Slight
MAN crash on the B4149 in Birmingham, 16 May 1991
At the same spotRef 19912091D0667
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A452 in Birmingham, 20 November 1994
At the same spotRef 19942094N3081
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A452 in Birmingham, 10 August 2025
31 m awayRef 2025201627552
Serious
HGV crash on the A452 in Birmingham, 15 February 2006
50 m awayRef 200620D071602
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A452 in Birmingham, 9 January 1999
50 m awayRef 199920D014701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Scorpio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,935 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 19972097D1663 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 1997.