A457 crash in Birmingham on 1 April 2000 at 18:00 involving a Renault 5
A car and a Renault 5 were involved in a crash on the A457 in Birmingham at 18:00 on Saturday 1 April 2000. The 22-year-old female driver of the Renault 5 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 2000
- Saturday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Renault 5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48681, longitude -1.93222, in the B18 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
- 200020F098501
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 457
- 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
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 6 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200120F178801
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 10 June 2004
At the same spotRef 200420F156302
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 27 October 2017
2 m awayRef 2017200242684
Slight
Car crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 31 January 2021
4 m awayRef 2021201058287
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 27 September 2018
5 m awayRef 2018200341782
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 24 March 2025
9 m awayRef 2025201570165
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Renault 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault 5)
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 200020F098501 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.