A454 crash in Birmingham on 8 December 2000 at 07:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A454 in Birmingham at 07:20 on Friday 8 December 2000. The 49-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2000
- Friday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58282, longitude -1.83393, in the B74 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Sutton Coldfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200020D398702
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 454
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2015.
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Ford Sierra crash on the A454 in Birmingham, 3 July 1996
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A454 in Birmingham, 26 May 1982
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Toyota Yaris crash on the A454 in Birmingham, 11 August 2025
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Ford Escort crash on the A454 in Birmingham, 27 May 1992
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Serious
Car crash on the A454 in Birmingham, 26 February 1989
158 m awayRef 19892000D0315
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 49, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200020D398702 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.