A4040 crash in Birmingham on 19 May 2005 at 18:45 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Vauxhall Vectra taxi were involved in a crash on the A4040 in Birmingham at 18:45 on Thursday 19 May 2005. The 42-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra 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
- 19 May 2005
- Thursday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48416, longitude -1.80986, in the B33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Yardley East, Birmingham, B33 8BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200520D151903
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 17 May 2001
10 m awayRef 200120D213203
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12 m awayRef 2025201649949
Slight
Skoda Kodiaq crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 3 September 2025
14 m awayRef 2025201636850
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 22 December 2024
15 m awayRef 2024201533617
Slight
Taxi crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 10 August 2023
17 m awayRef 2023201356787
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 10 June 1999
20 m awayRef 199920D166001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 200520D151903 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.