A4540 crash in Birmingham on 26 June 2004 at 11:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Rover 600 Series were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 11:40 on Saturday 26 June 2004. The 31-year-old male driver of the Rover 600 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 2004
- Saturday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Rover 600 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46511, longitude -1.89325, in the B5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham, B5 7HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420F165501
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- 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
- Wet or damp
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 serious injury crash on 10 July 1998.
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 10 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199820F145001
Slight
Vauxhall Grandland crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 13 August 2024
4 m awayRef 2024201479383
Slight
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 11 April 1998
14 m awayRef 199820E092501
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 9 August 2000
14 m awayRef 200020F199401
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 4 December 2024
15 m awayRef 2024201527026
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 11 December 2007
32 m awayRef 200720F261801
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 600 Series)
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 200420F165501 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.