A38 crash in Birmingham on 4 February 2013 at 06:35 involving a Rover 45
A Rover 45 and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on the A38 in Birmingham at 06:35 on Monday 4 February 2013. The 26-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 2013
- Monday, 06:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 45 and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43917, longitude -1.94024, in the B29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bournbrook & Selly Park, Birmingham, B29 6DP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201320S010163
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4040
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2007.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 2 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200720E108101
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 26 March 2013
At the same spotRef 201320S014663
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 17 August 2014
At the same spotRef 201420S048814
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 14 July 2013
At the same spotRef 201320S037113
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 30 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200920E500501
Serious
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 10 October 2011
At the same spotRef 201120S052191
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 45
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
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 201320S010163 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 2013.