A4040 crash in Birmingham on 15 September 2004 at 08:25 involving a car
A car and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A4040 in Birmingham at 08:25 on Wednesday 15 September 2004. A 34-year-old female passenger in the taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2004
- Wednesday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43845, longitude -1.9398, in the B29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bournbrook & Selly Park, Birmingham, B29 6DP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420E178501
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 December 2017.
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 29 December 2017
8 m awayRef 2017200254367
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 11 January 2021
9 m awayRef 2021201023822
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 14 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025201668753
Slight
Audi Q7 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 19 December 2024
9 m awayRef 2024201532723
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 24 April 2005
10 m awayRef 200520E073101
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 6 September 2002
10 m awayRef 200220E189301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200420E178501 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.