B4531 crash in Birmingham on 31 December 2003 at 13:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B4531 in Birmingham at 13:45 on Wednesday 31 December 2003. A 27-year-old male passenger 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
- 31 Dec 2003
- Wednesday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53161, longitude -1.8614, in the B23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stockland Green, Birmingham, B23 6JE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320D511702
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4531
- 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
- 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 27 July 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 27 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199920D215201
Serious
Mercedes 190 crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 27 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199820D058801
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 26 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200620D221602
Slight
Chrysler Voyager crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 22 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200620D519002
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 14 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200220D029302
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 25 April 2003
At the same spotRef 200320D151402
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 200320D511702 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.