Serious A47 crash in Birmingham on 16 September 2013 at 11:10 involving a Suzuki Liana
A Suzuki Liana crashed on the A47 in Birmingham at 11:10 on Monday 16 September 2013. The 49-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Sep 2013
- Monday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Liana
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50443, longitude -1.84056, in the B7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nechells, Birmingham, B7 5AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201320W045863
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 47
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2007.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A47 in Birmingham, 12 August 2007
14 m awayRef 200720D221101
Slight
Mercedes crash on the M6 in Birmingham, 21 July 2006
32 m awayRef 200620Z024101
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M6 in Birmingham, 30 August 2012
32 m awayRef 201220Z002482
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the M6 in Birmingham, 7 October 2008
32 m awayRef 200820Z031901
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M6 in Birmingham, 9 January 2000
32 m awayRef 200020D901201
Serious
Car crash on the M6 in Birmingham, 3 June 1984
36 m awayRef 19842000D1474
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Liana
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,586 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Liana)
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 201320W045863 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.