B4142 crash in Birmingham on 16 May 2004 at 21:55 involving a Rover 800 Series
A bicycle and a Rover 800 Series were involved in a crash on the B4142 in Birmingham at 21:55 on Sunday 16 May 2004. The 27-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 2004
- Sunday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Rover 800 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52403, longitude -1.84329, in the B23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Erdington, Birmingham, B23 6TG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420D175301
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4142
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 17 March 2009.
Serious
Car crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 17 March 2009
At the same spotRef 200920D067001
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 9 September 2016
6 m awayRef 2016200114751
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 5 February 2025
7 m awayRef 2025201550941
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 30 November 2015
12 m awayRef 2015200034955
Serious
Hyundai Ioniq crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 22 October 2022
12 m awayRef 2022201248216
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 26 October 2001
20 m awayRef 200120D407101
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 800 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 27, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200420D175301 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 2004.