A38 crash in Birmingham on 23 March 2008 at 15:35 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and a Toyota Carina were involved in a crash on the A38 in Birmingham at 15:35 on Sunday 23 March 2008. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Carina and a 59-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Corolla were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2008
- Sunday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and Toyota Carina
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51929, longitude -1.80013, in the B35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pype Hayes, Birmingham, B24 9PZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820D093902
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 452
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 27 January 2003.
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Renault Clio crash on the A4097 in Birmingham, 27 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200320D104002
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Nissan Micra crash on the A4097 in Birmingham, 24 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200320D195101
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Car crash on the A4097 in Birmingham, 8 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200420D341202
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4097 in Birmingham, 23 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199820D109401
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A4097 in Birmingham, 30 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199920D217901
Slight
MAN crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 1 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200920D314302
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Carina)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- 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 200820D093902 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 2008.