B4149 crash in Birmingham on 30 October 2001 at 17:00 involving a Vauxhall Omega
A Vauxhall Omega and a car were involved in a crash on the B4149 in Birmingham at 17:00 on Tuesday 30 October 2001. The 67-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2001
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Omega and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54824, longitude -1.85957, in the B73 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Sutton Coldfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Perry Common, Birmingham, B23 5YG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200120D414802
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4149
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 452
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 1999.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A452 in Birmingham, 16 October 1999
10 m awayRef 199920D310001
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4149 in Birmingham, 27 March 2003
14 m awayRef 200320D123102
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A452 in Birmingham, 22 February 1983
20 m awayRef 19832000D0591
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B4149 in Birmingham, 14 March 2009
20 m awayRef 200920D064402
Slight
Car crash on the B4149 in Birmingham, 16 December 1988
20 m awayRef 19882000D2119
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4149 in Birmingham, 3 July 1992
20 m awayRef 19922092D0924
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Omega
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200120D414802 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 2001.