B4137 crash in Birmingham on 9 May 2006 at 09:30 involving a Mercedes bus
A Mercedes bus crashed on the B4137 in Birmingham at 09:30 on Tuesday 9 May 2006. A 92-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 May 2006
- Tuesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50292, longitude -1.85721, in the B7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nechells, Birmingham, B7 5QL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200620D129301
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4137
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2007.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4137 in Birmingham, 7 September 2007
At the same spotRef 200720D254101
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4137 in Birmingham, 6 September 2005
At the same spotRef 200520D270701
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the B4137 in Birmingham, 29 September 2005
At the same spotRef 200520D316301
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 24 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200620D360101
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the B4137 in Birmingham, 19 November 2024
4 m awayRef 2024201520689
Slight
Car crash on the B4137 in Birmingham, 25 May 2008
14 m awayRef 200820D144601
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 16,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 92, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 200620D129301 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 2006.