A4040 crash in Birmingham on 23 February 2008 at 14:20 involving an Audi 80
An Audi 80 and a car were involved in a crash on the A4040 in Birmingham at 14:20 on Saturday 23 February 2008. The 48-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2008
- Saturday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi 80 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48088, longitude -1.9502, in the B16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Edgbaston, Birmingham, B16 9SS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820F051902
- 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
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 2021.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 28 May 2021
1 m awayRef 2021201084629
Serious
Citroen C2 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 11 April 2019
6 m awayRef 2019200919156
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 23 August 1991
20 m awayRef 19912091C1085
Slight
Car crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 19 August 1982
20 m awayRef 19822000C1653
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 22 June 1991
20 m awayRef 19912091C0795
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 8 September 1994
20 m awayRef 19942094W2125
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi 80
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200820F051902 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.