A4540 crash in Birmingham on 18 August 2003 at 14:00 involving a Toyota RAV4
A car and a Toyota RAV4 were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 14:00 on Monday 18 August 2003. The 49-year-old female driver of the Toyota RAV4 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2003
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47251, longitude -1.91767, in the B15 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
- 200320F222302
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2018.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 12 June 2018
7 m awayRef 2018200324778
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 16 March 2018
7 m awayRef 2018200284123
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 12 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025201679495
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 8 September 2015
10 m awayRef 201520W053955
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 9 October 2007
10 m awayRef 200720F214801
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 8 February 2006
10 m awayRef 200620F060602
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota RAV4)
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 200320F222302 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.