A4540 crash in Birmingham on 10 January 2000 at 17:13 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 17:13 on Monday 10 January 2000. The 25-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jan 2000
- Monday, 17:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47256, longitude -1.87527, in the B10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200020D022901
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 45
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 2005.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 30 August 2005
At the same spotRef 200520D261703
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 23 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200120D309303
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 30 May 2013
At the same spotRef 201320W027913
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 18 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200320F192301
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Suzuki Alto crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 25 February 2016
6 m awayRef 2016200050143
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 14 June 2016
7 m awayRef 2016200081269
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
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 200020D022901 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 2000.