B4217 crash in Birmingham on 8 July 2008 at 14:45 involving a Nissan Primera taxi
A Nissan Primera taxi and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the B4217 in Birmingham at 14:45 on Tuesday 8 July 2008. The 26-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2008
- Tuesday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Primera and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44641, longitude -1.88785, in the B13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Moseley, Birmingham, B13 8JR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820E097003
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4217
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 435
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 28 August 1999.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B4217 in Birmingham, 28 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199920E208301
Slight
Car crash on the B4217 in Birmingham, 1 May 2025
3 m awayRef 2025201584535
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B4217 in Birmingham, 3 August 2017
6 m awayRef 2017200221560
Serious
Car crash on the B4217 in Birmingham, 1 January 2016
9 m awayRef 2016200065898
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the B4217 in Birmingham, 23 June 2005
10 m awayRef 200520E170203
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B4217 in Birmingham, 16 March 2008
10 m awayRef 200820E043703
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Primera
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
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 200820E097003 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.