Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B9 on 15 December 2009 at 04:40 involving a Mercedes SLK Class
A Mercedes SLK Class crashed on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 04:40 on Tuesday 15 December 2009. The 45-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2009
- Tuesday, 04:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes SLK Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47975, longitude -1.87172, in the B9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham, B9 4TG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200920D319803
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2009.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 18 December 2009
22 m awayRef 200920D326003
Serious
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 1 May 1989
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Slight
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Slight
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Fatal
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes SLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes SLK Class)
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 200920D319803 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 2009.