A4040 crash in Birmingham on 4 April 2011 at 18:30 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A4040 in Birmingham at 18:30 on Monday 4 April 2011. The 27-year-old male driver of the Rover 25 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
- 4 Apr 2011
- Monday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 25 and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46147, longitude -1.96317, in the B17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Quinton, Birmingham, B17 8AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201120S016771
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4040
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 16 November 1983
40 m awayRef 19832000C2391
Slight
Car crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 13 September 1988
40 m awayRef 19882000C1114
Slight
Metrocab Metrocab crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 20 June 2003
45 m awayRef 200320F168202
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 31 December 2001
50 m awayRef 200120F617901
Slight
Jaguar XF Series crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 31 July 2023
51 m awayRef 2023201374433
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 14 December 2018
53 m awayRef 2018200808560
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 25)
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 201120S016771 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 2011.