A4540 crash in Birmingham on 10 January 2012 at 07:26 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Yamaha R6 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 07:26 on Tuesday 10 January 2012. The 32-year-old male rider of the Yamaha R6 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jan 2012
- Tuesday, 07:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Yamaha R6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47067, longitude -1.87675, in the B10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley Green, Birmingham, B10 0BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220W003882
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 September 2000.
Serious
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 23 September 2000
14 m awayRef 200020F234901
Slight
Renault 9 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 20 November 2000
20 m awayRef 200020D368803
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 19 January 1998
28 m awayRef 199820E019201
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 29 January 2018
34 m awayRef 2018200265682
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 5 March 2018
35 m awayRef 2018200281838
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 13 March 2015
36 m awayRef 201520T020585
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha R6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha R6)
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 201220W003882 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.