B4531 crash in Birmingham on 10 February 2005 at 22:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Toyota Carina were involved in a crash on the B4531 in Birmingham at 22:00 on Thursday 10 February 2005. The 45-year-old male driver of the Toyota Carina and a 30-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Carina were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Feb 2005
- Thursday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Toyota Carina
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52808, longitude -1.84136, in the B23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Erdington, Birmingham, B23 6TG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200520D077702
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4531
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4142
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 19 November 2003.
Slight
Car crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 19 November 2003
At the same spotRef 200320D404402
Serious
Toyota C-HR crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 15 August 2025
4 m awayRef 2025201629876
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 16 November 2006
10 m awayRef 200620D331702
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 10 March 2014
10 m awayRef 201420N015184
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 28 September 2005
10 m awayRef 200520D541702
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 26 January 2008
10 m awayRef 200820D038902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Carina)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Carina)
- 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 200520D077702 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 2005.