Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B21 on 19 October 2008 at 02:54 involving a Volkswagen Caddy van
A Volkswagen Caddy van and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 02:54 on Sunday 19 October 2008. The 19-year-old male driver of the Mini Cooper and an 18-year-old male passenger in the Mini Cooper were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2008
- Sunday, 02:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Caddy and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50453, longitude -1.94958, in the B21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holyhead, Birmingham, B66 2EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820F219603
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 October 1983.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 8 October 1983
36 m awayRef 19832000C2059
Slight
Bedford Astra crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 29 April 1997
36 m awayRef 19972097F0948
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 6 June 1990
36 m awayRef 19902000C0883
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 30 August 1985
36 m awayRef 19852000C1828
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 25 November 1984
36 m awayRef 19842000C2614
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 4 February 2002
51 m awayRef 200220F062303
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Caddy
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200820F219603 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.