B4025 crash in Solihull on 11 October 2013 at 03:45 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on the B4025 in Solihull at 03:45 on Friday 11 October 2013. A 22-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Avensis, the 40-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series and a 23-year-old female passenger in the BMW 5 Series were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 2013
- Friday, 03:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42143, longitude -1.82336, in the B90 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shirley East & Sharmans Cross, Solihull, B90 3NW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201320L007263
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4025
- Road type
- Single 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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 slight injury crash on 26 January 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 26 January 2004
14 m awayRef 200420L021701
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 17 December 2004
45 m awayRef 200420L227601
Fatal
BMW 5 Series crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 16 March 2007
45 m awayRef 200720L043901
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 17 June 2025
49 m awayRef 2025201603818
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 26 February 2006
50 m awayRef 200620L034701
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 3 August 2003
64 m awayRef 200320L152601
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Gas bi-fuel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 5 Series)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 5 Series)
- 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 201320L007263 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 2013.