B4121 crash in Birmingham on 2 January 1998 at 14:00 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and an MG Metro were involved in a crash on the B4121 in Birmingham at 14:00 on Friday 2 January 1998. The 40-year-old female driver of the MG Metro was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jan 1998
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and MG Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4152, longitude -1.94894, in the B30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199820E004201
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4121
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 2009.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4121 in Birmingham, 5 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200920E132001
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the B4121 in Birmingham, 17 June 2019
1 m awayRef 2019200853244
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4121 in Birmingham, 27 February 2025
2 m awayRef 2025201559907
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4121 in Birmingham, 2 September 2022
5 m awayRef 2022201251842
Slight
Ford Ecosport crash on the B4121 in Birmingham, 25 April 2021
9 m awayRef 2021201057789
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4121 in Birmingham, 8 July 2014
10 m awayRef 201420S039514
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: MG Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (MG Metro)
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 199820E004201 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.