Serious A4040 crash in Birmingham on 30 May 2000 at 02:05 involving a Kawasaki ZX750 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX750 motorcycle crashed on the A4040 in Birmingham at 02:05 on Tuesday 30 May 2000. A 32-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 May 2000
- Tuesday, 02:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX750
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47433, longitude -1.96198, 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
- 200020F136501
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 2006.
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Skoda Favorit crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 16 January 2000
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Fatal
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX750
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX750)
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 200020F136501 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.