A4400 crash in Birmingham on 14 March 2007 at 04:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A4400 in Birmingham at 04:30 on Wednesday 14 March 2007. A 21-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 2007
- Wednesday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48588, longitude -1.89423, in the B4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown, Birmingham, B19 3SN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720F145701
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4400
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 April 2023.
Serious
MAN crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 25 April 2023
11 m awayRef 2023201305572
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 22 August 2004
14 m awayRef 200420F215001
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 11 May 2001
14 m awayRef 200120F183801
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 20 June 2007
14 m awayRef 200720F139601
Slight
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20 m awayRef 2025201629794
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 23 April 2008
36 m awayRef 200820F081101
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200720F145701 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.