A456 crash in Birmingham on 16 August 2002 at 04:00 involving a Metrocab Metrocab taxi
A Metrocab Metrocab taxi and a Honda Accord were involved in a crash on the A456 in Birmingham at 04:00 on Friday 16 August 2002. The 39-year-old male driver of the Honda Accord 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2002
- Friday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Metrocab Metrocab and Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47188, longitude -1.92798, in the B16 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220F231502
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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 22 May 2015.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 22 May 2015
At the same spotRef 201520W031685
Serious
Car crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 20 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200420F077702
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 1 November 2002
At the same spotRef 200220F312902
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 18 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200920F223702
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 17 May 2013
At the same spotRef 201320S026573
Slight
Honda CRF1000A crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 24 July 2025
3 m awayRef 2025201620690
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Metrocab Metrocab
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,446 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Accord)
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 200220F231502 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.