B425 crash in Solihull on 27 April 2008 at 20:30 involving a Nissan Sunny
A Nissan Sunny and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B425 in Solihull at 20:30 on Sunday 27 April 2008. A 10-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 2008
- Sunday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Sunny and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43107, longitude -1.78052, in the B91 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Silhill, Solihull, B91 2HX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820L077501
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 425
- 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
- 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 4 March 2025.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B425 in Solihull, 4 March 2025
1 m awayRef 2025201561748
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B425 in Solihull, 19 February 2008
10 m awayRef 200820L034501
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B425 in Solihull, 28 July 2009
10 m awayRef 200920L106201
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 29 July 2000
10 m awayRef 200020L089701
Serious
Mercedes Tourismo crash on the B425 in Solihull, 10 January 2023
15 m awayRef 2023201267958
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 13 May 2003
22 m awayRef 200320L097301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 200820L077501 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2008.