A4400 crash in Birmingham on 26 March 2003 at 01:45 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A4400 in Birmingham at 01:45 on Wednesday 26 March 2003. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2003
- Wednesday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48041, longitude -1.90603, in the B3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B2 4DH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320F078701
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4400
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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 11 October 2009.
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 11 October 2009
At the same spotRef 200920F181201
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 21 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200320F339001
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 10 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200120F181401
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 28 March 2013
10 m awayRef 201320W017673
Serious
Car crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 26 March 2006
10 m awayRef 200620F072801
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 27 June 2002
10 m awayRef 200220F182201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 200320F078701 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.