B4025 crash in Solihull on 6 November 1999 at 19:12 involving a Rover 100 Series
A Rover 100 Series and a Metrocab Metrocab taxi were involved in a crash on the B4025 in Solihull at 19:12 on Saturday 6 November 1999. The 27-year-old male driver of the Rover 100 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 1999
- Saturday, 19:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 100 Series and Metrocab Metrocab
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42242, longitude -1.826, in the B90 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199920L113901
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4025
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 January 2023.
Serious
Mercedes AMG Class crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 7 January 2023
4 m awayRef 2023201277186
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 13 April 2025
19 m awayRef 2025201578086
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 21 August 1997
32 m awayRef 19972097L0751
Fatal
Toyota Previa crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 27 June 2012
32 m awayRef 201220L004152
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 29 November 2015
48 m awayRef 2015200034277
Slight
Car crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 2 October 2025
93 m awayRef 2025201663399
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 100 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,120 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Metrocab Metrocab
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 100 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 199920L113901 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 1999.