Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B12 on 11 May 2007 at 00:15 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Nissan Almera were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 00:15 on Friday 11 May 2007. A 37-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Golf 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 2007
- Friday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45889, longitude -1.87369, in the B12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East, Birmingham, B11 4AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720E061703
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 19 May 2015
At the same spotRef 201520T029215
Serious
Audi A6 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 13 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201120T500321
Slight
BMW M3 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 29 June 2024
5 m awayRef 2024201462179
Slight
Car crash on the A4167 in Birmingham, 19 March 2021
6 m awayRef 2021201070486
Slight
Daihatsu Sirion crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 13 May 2023
8 m awayRef 2023201316842
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 9 May 2022
9 m awayRef 2022201181594
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat 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 200720E061703 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.