A4540 crash in Birmingham on 14 April 2002 at 18:33 involving a Toyota MR2
A Toyota MR2 crashed on the A4540 in Birmingham at 18:33 on Sunday 14 April 2002. A 20-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Apr 2002
- Sunday, 18:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota MR2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47238, longitude -1.87483, in the B10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley Green, Birmingham, B10 0BW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220F104201
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 12 March 2002.
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 12 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200220D098003
Serious
Seat Alhambra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 2 August 2004
10 m awayRef 200420E143403
Serious
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 24 November 2024
13 m awayRef 2024201520609
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 25 April 2015
14 m awayRef 201520T023535
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 17 May 2021
17 m awayRef 2021201082335
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 16 May 2016
18 m awayRef 2016200076677
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota MR2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota MR2)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 200220F104201 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.