Unclassified road crash in Solihull B37 on 2 January 2012 at 02:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Solihull at 02:50 on Monday 2 January 2012. The 57-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 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
- 2 Jan 2012
- Monday, 02:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47206, longitude -1.73792, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220L000392
- Council area
- Solihull
- 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, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 3 October 1984
50 m awayRef 19842000L1792
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 12 February 1985
50 m awayRef 19852000L0239
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 14 May 1996
50 m awayRef 19962096L0485
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 23 June 2001
99 m awayRef 200120L176001
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 24 November 2018
100 m awayRef 2018200811137
Fatal
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 20 January 1995
112 m awayRef 19952095L0031
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201220L000392 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 2012.