B4145 crash in Birmingham on 16 January 2002 at 17:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the B4145 in Birmingham at 17:00 on Wednesday 16 January 2002. The 29-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2002
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45924, longitude -1.86089, in the B11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East, Birmingham, B11 4AB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220E060203
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4145
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 2003.
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the B4145 in Birmingham, 29 April 2003
At the same spotRef 200320E085303
Slight
Car crash on the B4145 in Birmingham, 20 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199920D119001
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B4145 in Birmingham, 30 April 2008
10 m awayRef 200820E067603
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4145 in Birmingham, 26 May 2025
19 m awayRef 2025201595046
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4145 in Birmingham, 27 July 2008
20 m awayRef 200820E106903
Serious
Toyota MR2 crash on the B4145 in Birmingham, 22 February 2004
22 m awayRef 200420E041403
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200220E060203 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 2002.