Serious A4040 crash in Birmingham on 16 July 1999 at 07:50 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the A4040 in Birmingham at 07:50 on Friday 16 July 1999. The 41-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jul 1999
- Friday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46821, longitude -1.96714, in the B17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199920F178201
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 2020.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 30 May 2020
7 m awayRef 2020200957586
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 24 December 2013
10 m awayRef 201320S504183
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 18 September 2001
20 m awayRef 200120F306901
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 10 June 2012
22 m awayRef 201220S031062
Slight
Yamaha XC 125 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 25 August 2013
22 m awayRef 201320S044253
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 5 May 2005
32 m awayRef 200520F106402
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 41, 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 199920F178201 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 1999.