B4118 crash in Solihull on 8 November 2006 at 17:59 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B4118 in Solihull at 17:59 on Wednesday 8 November 2006. The 28-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 2006
- Wednesday, 17:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Almera and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50531, longitude -1.77455, in the B36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle Bromwich, Solihull, B36 9EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200620L182501
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4118
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 November 2022.
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on the B4118 in Solihull, 27 November 2022
9 m awayRef 2022201271775
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the B4118 in Solihull, 3 January 2018
27 m awayRef 2018200260481
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the B4118 in Solihull, 22 July 2013
36 m awayRef 201320L005313
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the B4118 in Solihull, 6 August 2006
36 m awayRef 200620L124301
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4118 in Solihull, 2 March 2000
36 m awayRef 200020L022201
Slight
Car crash on the B4118 in Solihull, 10 December 1981
40 m awayRef 19812000L1782
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 200620L182501 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2006.