A4040 crash in Birmingham on 13 July 2001 at 16:40 involving a Citroen Xantia
A Citroen Xantia and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A4040 in Birmingham at 16:40 on Friday 13 July 2001. The 31-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 2001
- Friday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xantia and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45625, longitude -1.95479, in the B17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harborne, Birmingham, B17 9QE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200120F250201
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4040
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 2 November 2007.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 2 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200720F239402
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 20 May 2000
At the same spotRef 200020F127401
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 4 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200620F100102
Slight
Audi TTS crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 19 April 2024
2 m awayRef 2024201519313
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 3 June 2024
9 m awayRef 2024201452832
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 29 April 1999
10 m awayRef 199920F103801
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200120F250201 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.