A4040 crash in Birmingham on 21 December 2005 at 12:45 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry
An Iveco-Ford lorry and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A4040 in Birmingham at 12:45 on Wednesday 21 December 2005. The 20-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2005
- Wednesday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Iveco-Ford and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48502, longitude -1.94254, in the B16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Edgbaston, Birmingham, B18 4ED area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200520F507902
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 1 April 2017
5 m awayRef 2017200173059
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 19 July 2025
11 m awayRef 2025201619377
Slight
Car crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 20 June 2024
15 m awayRef 2024201458129
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 8 December 2020
25 m awayRef 2020201020648
Slight
Car crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 15 February 1999
28 m awayRef 199920F040001
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 10 December 2018
29 m awayRef 2018200812595
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 5,861 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200520F507902 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.