A4040 crash in Birmingham on 24 December 1997 at 08:21 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A4040 in Birmingham at 08:21 on Wednesday 24 December 1997. A 39-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1997
- Wednesday, 08:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42247, longitude -1.93378, in the B30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19972097E3161
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 30 December 1996.
Serious
Austin Allegro crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 30 December 1996
At the same spotRef 19962096E8040
Slight
Car crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 6 November 1985
At the same spotRef 19852000B3013
Serious
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 7 August 1991
At the same spotRef 19912091B1142
Serious
Car crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 5 May 1980
At the same spotRef 19802000B1239
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 29 March 1990
At the same spotRef 19902000B0581
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 2 November 2020
59 m awayRef 2020201010388
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 19972097E3161 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.