A4540 crash in Birmingham on 15 September 2005 at 12:50 involving a Suzuki Supercarry van
A Suzuki Supercarry van and a car were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 12:50 on Thursday 15 September 2005. The 28-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2005
- Thursday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Supercarry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49253, longitude -1.89068, in the B6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown, Birmingham, B19 3SN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200520F216701
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 January 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 11 January 1987
20 m awayRef 19872000F0028
Serious
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 10 April 1989
20 m awayRef 19892000D0595
Slight
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 26 March 1988
20 m awayRef 19882000D0493
Serious
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 23 February 1985
20 m awayRef 19852000D0543
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 14 August 1993
20 m awayRef 19932093D1085
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 7 August 2000
20 m awayRef 200020F217401
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Supercarry
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 970 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200520F216701 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.