A34 crash in Birmingham on 1 February 2007 at 22:30 involving a Kia Picanto
A Kia Picanto crashed on the A34 in Birmingham at 22:30 on Thursday 1 February 2007. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 2007
- Thursday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Picanto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44557, longitude -1.85961, in the B11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sparkhill, Birmingham, B11 4HD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720E018603
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 1999.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 6 September 1999
At the same spotRef 199920E218901
Serious
Car crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 4 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200420E176703
Slight
Taxi crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 27 January 2009
At the same spotRef 200920E015603
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 6 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199820E084301
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 5 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200120E253503
Slight
MCW crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 20 May 1999
At the same spotRef 199920E126201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Picanto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Picanto)
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 200720E018603 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 2007.