Unclassified road crash in Solihull B40 on 21 September 2012 at 21:37 involving a Land Rover Range Rover
A car and a Land Rover Range Rover were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Solihull at 21:37 on Friday 21 September 2012. The 39-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Range Rover was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 2012
- Friday, 21:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Land Rover Range Rover
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44737, longitude -1.71364, in the B40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Meriden & Arden, Solihull, B40 1PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220L005982
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2003.
Slight
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Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 20 November 2005
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Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 20 December 2005
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Proton Persona Compact crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 22 December 1999
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Ford Puma crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 21 April 2007
At the same spotRef 200720L097201
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 30 October 2005
At the same spotRef 200520L188701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover)
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 201220L005982 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.