A4040 crash in Birmingham on 31 December 2004 at 15:10 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series and a Nissan Primera taxi were involved in a crash on the A4040 in Birmingham at 15:10 on Friday 31 December 2004. A female passenger in the Nissan Primera taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2004
- Friday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 600 Series and Nissan Primera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48947, longitude -1.81573, in the B8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromford & Hodge Hill, Birmingham, B34 6AE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420D522201
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2004.
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Scania crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 26 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200420D190401
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Toyota Yaris crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 11 January 2024
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10 m awayRef 201320T053803
Slight
Scania crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 17 February 2011
10 m awayRef 201120T027871
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Primera
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Primera)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200420D522201 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.