B4149 crash in Birmingham on 19 September 1998 at 12:40 involving a Ford Sierra
A van and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the B4149 in Birmingham at 12:40 on Saturday 19 September 1998. The 32-year-old female driver of the Ford Sierra, a 16-year-old female passenger in the Ford Sierra and a 65-year-old female passenger in the Ford Sierra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 1998
- Saturday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5508, longitude -1.87268, in the B44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199820D250501
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4149
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 2006.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4149 in Birmingham, 8 June 2006
At the same spotRef 200620D175602
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B4149 in Birmingham, 12 April 2020
1 m awayRef 2020200950898
Serious
Car crash on the B4149 in Birmingham, 17 January 2018
4 m awayRef 2018200262325
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B4149 in Birmingham, 25 August 2025
7 m awayRef 2025201633060
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B4149 in Birmingham, 19 August 1999
14 m awayRef 199920D238201
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4149 in Birmingham, 29 March 2000
14 m awayRef 200020D101701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,304 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
- 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 199820D250501 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 1998.