A45 crash in Birmingham on 17 August 2008 at 18:48 involving a car
A car crashed on the A45 in Birmingham at 18:48 on Sunday 17 August 2008. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 2008
- Sunday, 18:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4603, longitude -1.8494, in the B10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Small Heath, Birmingham, B10 0EQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820D225003
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 February 2010.
Serious
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 4 February 2010
10 m awayRef 201020D038613
Serious
Mercedes S Class crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 3 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199920D158601
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 10 June 2004
10 m awayRef 200420D208203
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 13 July 2025
18 m awayRef 2025201615299
Fatal
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 30 August 1999
20 m awayRef 199920D241301
Slight
Talbot Express crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 28 January 1992
36 m awayRef 19922092E5026
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, 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 200820D225003 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.