A34 crash in Solihull on 15 April 2012 at 12:14 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Suzuki RV 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A34 in Solihull at 12:14 on Sunday 15 April 2012. The 19-year-old male rider of the Suzuki RV 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 2012
- Sunday, 12:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Suzuki RV 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41496, longitude -1.82868, in the B90 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shirley West, Solihull, B90 3AE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220L002692
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- Road type
- Dual 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 2009.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A34 in Solihull, 17 July 2009
At the same spotRef 200920L120901
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A34 in Solihull, 1 January 2000
At the same spotRef 200020L001001
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A34 in Solihull, 6 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200420L095901
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A34 in Solihull, 4 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200320L007701
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A34 in Solihull, 23 December 2017
4 m awayRef 2017200265185
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A34 in Solihull, 16 December 2023
5 m awayRef 2023201416210
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki RV 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki RV 125)
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 201220L002692 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.