A4040 crash in Birmingham on 29 October 2003 at 07:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A4040 in Birmingham at 07:45 on Wednesday 29 October 2003. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2003
- Wednesday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51324, longitude -1.92585, in the B20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, B20 2DU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320F292903
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4040
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 2016.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 2 October 2016
7 m awayRef 2016200116483
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 3 January 2007
10 m awayRef 200720F009103
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 20 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199820F216801
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 13 October 1999
10 m awayRef 199920F254101
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 8 November 2024
12 m awayRef 2024201513817
Slight
Taxi crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 28 May 2021
13 m awayRef 2021201058650
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200320F292903 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.