A45 crash in Birmingham on 17 August 2003 at 12:35 involving a Honda motorcycle
A car and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A45 in Birmingham at 12:35 on Sunday 17 August 2003. The 25-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 2003
- Sunday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47328, longitude -1.87527, in the B9 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320D293303
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4540
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 2018.
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Seat Leon crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 19 August 2021
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Mercedes A Class crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 12 July 2019
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Toyota Previa crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 13 August 2017
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Ford Focus crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 23 April 2017
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 918 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda)
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 200320D293303 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 2003.