A456 crash in Birmingham on 21 May 2004 at 06:20 involving a Mercedes 300 van
A Mercedes 300 van and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A456 in Birmingham at 06:20 on Friday 21 May 2004. The 50-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 May 2004
- Friday, 06:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes 300 and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47325, longitude -1.95727, in the B17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Edgbaston, Birmingham, B17 8DT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420F142002
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 456
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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 24 February 2015.
Slight
Yamaha XC 125 crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 24 February 2015
At the same spotRef 201520S027955
Serious
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3 m awayRef 2025201684512
Slight
Volvo C 30 crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 28 December 2016
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Slight
Renault Espace crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 18 May 2007
10 m awayRef 200720F159702
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 9 July 2013
10 m awayRef 201320S034723
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 23 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199820F036701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes 300
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200420F142002 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.