Unclassified road crash in Solihull B37 on 5 May 2009 at 18:15 involving a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle
A Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle, a Peugeot 206 and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Solihull at 18:15 on Tuesday 5 May 2009. The 16-year-old male rider of the Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle 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
- 5 May 2009
- Tuesday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot Speedfight and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47815, longitude -1.7264, in the B37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chelmsley Wood, Solihull, B37 7JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200920L063801
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2025.
Slight
BMW 2 Series crash on the A452 in Solihull, 11 October 2025
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Slight
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Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A452 in Solihull, 28 December 2018
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Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A452 in Solihull, 16 October 2025
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Slight
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30 m awayRef 2019200907352
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A452 in Solihull, 7 November 2023
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 200920L063801 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.