Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B26 on 29 January 2013 at 17:27 involving a taxi
A taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 17:27 on Tuesday 29 January 2013. The 46-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2013
- Tuesday, 17:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46544, longitude -1.79669, in the B26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Yardley East, Birmingham, B26 2AT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201320T008563
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 November 1990.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 1 November 1990
10 m awayRef 19902090E2368
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 27 August 1996
10 m awayRef 19962096D2257
Slight
Datsun Cherry crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 4 November 1993
10 m awayRef 19932093E1914
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 21 June 1980
10 m awayRef 19802000E1763
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 23 April 2004
10 m awayRef 200420D160803
Serious
Leyland National crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 12 March 1998
10 m awayRef 199820D073801
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- 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
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 46, 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 201320T008563 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.