A4540 crash in Birmingham on 13 February 2007 at 00:45 involving a Mitsubishi Shogun
A Mitsubishi Shogun and a Toyota Carina were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 00:45 on Tuesday 13 February 2007. The 28-year-old male driver of the Toyota Carina was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Feb 2007
- Tuesday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Shogun and Toyota Carina
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47079, longitude -1.91149, in the B15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B15 2BG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720F055402
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4127
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 2025.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 12 January 2025
5 m awayRef 2025201540653
Serious
Audi S3 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 13 September 2023
7 m awayRef 2023201402778
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 25 September 2017
7 m awayRef 2017200232309
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 22 April 2025
9 m awayRef 2025201580715
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 10 July 2004
10 m awayRef 200420F176701
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 21 November 2008
10 m awayRef 200820F231902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Shogun
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,972 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Carina)
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 200720F055402 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.