A5127 crash in Birmingham on 8 June 2008 at 09:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A5127 in Birmingham at 09:45 on Sunday 8 June 2008. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jun 2008
- Sunday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50734, longitude -1.86471, in the B6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gravelly Hill, Birmingham, B23 7JY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820D160001
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5127
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4137
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2017.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 21 April 2017
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Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B4137 in Birmingham, 23 August 2009
20 m awayRef 200920D202101
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B4137 in Birmingham, 6 August 2022
22 m awayRef 2022201225620
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B4137 in Birmingham, 14 April 2019
28 m awayRef 2019200838664
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 29 October 1999
30 m awayRef 199920D314701
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 9 May 2025
31 m awayRef 2025201587647
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200820D160001 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.