Unclassified road crash in Solihull B37 on 5 March 2009 at 16:00 involving a Ford Focus
A vehicle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Solihull at 16:00 on Thursday 5 March 2009. The 55-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus 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
- 5 Mar 2009
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48737, longitude -1.74799, in the B37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fordbridge, Solihull, B37 5FD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200920L049801
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2004.
Slight
Dennis crash on the B4128 in Solihull, 17 December 2004
32 m awayRef 200420L228301
Serious
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 25 September 2007
36 m awayRef 200720L156401
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 28 November 2019
36 m awayRef 2019200910462
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4128 in Solihull, 23 March 2004
50 m awayRef 200420L062101
Slight
Car crash on the B4128 in Solihull, 10 December 1982
51 m awayRef 19822000L1871
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4128 in Solihull, 30 July 1982
51 m awayRef 19822000L1065
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 200920L049801 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 2009.