A4040 crash in Birmingham on 20 September 2008 at 21:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the A4040 in Birmingham at 21:05 on Saturday 20 September 2008. A 17-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2008
- Saturday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42994, longitude -1.86907, in the B13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Billesley, Birmingham, B13 0TW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820E153002
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4040
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2025.
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Toyota Auris crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 24 April 2025
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Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 2 September 2009
10 m awayRef 200920E121602
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 9 January 2000
10 m awayRef 200020E016001
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 3 May 2019
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Skoda Fabia crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 17 January 2024
21 m awayRef 2024201457299
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200820E153002 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.