A4540 crash in Birmingham on 7 March 2007 at 22:54 involving a Lexus GS300
A Lexus GS300 and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 22:54 on Wednesday 7 March 2007. An 8-year-old female passenger in the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2007
- Wednesday, 22:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexus GS300 and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47305, longitude -1.91797, 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 1BF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720F058101
- 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
- Roundabout
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 456
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2001.
Slight
Bus crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 6 June 2001
At the same spotRef 200120F205101
Slight
Car crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 27 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200220F071401
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 9 November 2018
6 m awayRef 2018200351915
Slight
Lexus ES 300 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 30 October 2022
6 m awayRef 2022201239110
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 21 April 2016
7 m awayRef 2016200067232
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 15 May 2009
10 m awayRef 200920F089301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexus GS300
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
- 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 200720F058101 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.