Serious unclassified road crash in Birmingham B29 on 10 October 2003 at 06:57 involving a Ford Scorpio
A Ford Scorpio crashed on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 06:57 on Friday 10 October 2003. The 52-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Oct 2003
- Friday, 06:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Scorpio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42254, longitude -1.9685, in the B29 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Allens Cross, Birmingham, B31 1PB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320E204301
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Scorpio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,935 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Scorpio)
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 200320E204301 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.