Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B18 on 3 November 2003 at 01:30 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 01:30 on Monday 3 November 2003. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2003
- Monday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48474, longitude -1.92266, in the B18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B16 0DN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320F533702
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 2024.
Slight
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Slight
Car crash on the A790 in Birmingham, 31 October 1981
58 m awayRef 19812000C2140
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 5 August 1996
58 m awayRef 19962096F1644
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 25 February 1996
58 m awayRef 19962096F0420
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 1 December 1981
58 m awayRef 19812000C2380
Slight
Car crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 7 November 1984
58 m awayRef 19842000C2499
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 200320F533702 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.