A456 crash in Birmingham on 13 March 2002 at 11:10 involving a DAF Trucks bus
A DAF Trucks bus and a car were involved in a crash on the A456 in Birmingham at 11:10 on Wednesday 13 March 2002. A 55-year-old female passenger in the DAF Trucks bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 2002
- Wednesday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47646, longitude -1.91266, in the B1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B15 1BF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220F086101
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 456
- 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
- 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 slight injury crash on 21 June 2009.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 21 June 2009
At the same spotRef 200920F107101
Slight
Mercedes SLK Class crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 27 August 2000
At the same spotRef 200020F211401
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 27 February 1999
At the same spotRef 199920F049401
Serious
Car crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 21 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200420F081601
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 18 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200420F210801
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 4 October 2018
1 m awayRef 2018200342804
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 55, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (DAF Trucks)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 200220F086101 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.