Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B29 on 7 August 2008 at 20:30 involving a Ford Focus
A bicycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 20:30 on Thursday 7 August 2008. The 14-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2008
- Thursday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44241, longitude -1.96628, in the B29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820E111201
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2021.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 5 November 2021
2 m awayRef 2021201144768
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 2 June 2006
14 m awayRef 200620E091601
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 4 May 2025
14 m awayRef 2025201585800
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 13 July 2016
20 m awayRef 2016200090720
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 13 January 1980
22 m awayRef 19802000B0097
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 19 June 2007
50 m awayRef 200720E090901
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200820E111201 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.