A4040 crash in Birmingham on 24 October 2012 at 17:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A4040 in Birmingham at 17:00 on Wednesday 24 October 2012. The 27-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2012
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46453, longitude -1.96538, 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
- 201220S050102
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4040
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 2016.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 22 January 2016
2 m awayRef 2016200045227
Serious
Audi TT crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 4 May 2016
3 m awayRef 2016200069043
Slight
Nissan Ariya crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 24 April 2023
7 m awayRef 2023201326118
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 22 October 2019
7 m awayRef 2019200902457
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 19 November 2021
7 m awayRef 2021201146497
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 27 April 2012
10 m awayRef 201220S020602
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 27, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201220S050102 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.