A45 crash in Birmingham on 25 September 2008 at 11:26 involving a Ford Focus
A motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A45 in Birmingham at 11:26 on Thursday 25 September 2008. The 56-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Sep 2008
- Thursday, 11:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45392, longitude -1.791, in the B26 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sheldon, Birmingham, B26 3HS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820D252303
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2013.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 7 December 2013
10 m awayRef 201320T062413
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 29 December 2008
10 m awayRef 200820D503803
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 24 September 2020
11 m awayRef 2020200996623
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 16 August 2019
14 m awayRef 2019200889165
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 31 October 2007
14 m awayRef 200720D288303
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 30 July 1980
20 m awayRef 19802000E2163
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 650 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200820D252303 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.