A38 crash in Birmingham on 22 December 2004 at 17:35 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A38 in Birmingham at 17:35 on Wednesday 22 December 2004. A 17-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Vectra and a 15-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Vectra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2004
- Wednesday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47474, longitude -1.90088, in the B1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B2 4DH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420F501601
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Roundabout
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 4127
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 2010.
Slight
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At the same spotRef 201020W023950
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 4 August 2015
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4127 in Birmingham, 3 August 2025
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Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 28 November 2018
8 m awayRef 2018200351552
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B4127 in Birmingham, 16 March 2024
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Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4127 in Birmingham, 30 April 1999
10 m awayRef 199920F107701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 200420F501601 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.