B4144 crash in Birmingham on 18 July 2008 at 16:07 involving a Fiat Brava
A Fiat Brava, a Ford Focus and a Toyota Carina were involved in a crash on the B4144 in Birmingham at 16:07 on Friday 18 July 2008. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and the 23-year-old male driver of the Toyota Carina were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 2008
- Friday, 16:07
- Vehicles
- 3
- Fiat Brava and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50208, longitude -1.91894, in the B19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lozells, Birmingham, B19 1ES area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820F139103
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4144
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 4124
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 January 2002.
Serious
Suzuki UX 50 crash on the B4144 in Birmingham, 10 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200220F032403
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4144 in Birmingham, 27 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199820F223401
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the B4144 in Birmingham, 29 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200420F124003
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4144 in Birmingham, 6 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200220F029303
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4144 in Birmingham, 21 August 2005
At the same spotRef 200520F226203
Slight
Car crash on the B4144 in Birmingham, 11 October 2025
1 m awayRef 2025201653358
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Brava
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Toyota Carina)
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 200820F139103 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.