Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B72 on 13 January 2012 at 01:10 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5 and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 01:10 on Friday 13 January 2012. The 24-year-old male driver of the Audi A5 and a 26-year-old male passenger in the Audi A5 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 2012
- Friday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A5 and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55889, longitude -1.82237, in the B72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Sutton Coldfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton Trinity, Birmingham, B72 1QA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220N027262
- Council area
- Birmingham
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 875 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A5)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201220N027262 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 2012.