Unclassified road crash in Solihull B36 on 14 May 2015 at 14:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Mercedes B Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Solihull at 14:30 on Thursday 14 May 2015. The 76-year-old male driver of the Mercedes B Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 2015
- Thursday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Mercedes B Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50472, longitude -1.77617, in the B36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle Bromwich, Solihull, B36 9EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201520L003525
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4118
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 2011.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4118 in Solihull, 27 April 2011
22 m awayRef 201120L003611
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B4118 in Solihull, 30 June 1981
32 m awayRef 19812000L0896
Slight
Car crash on the B4118 in Solihull, 9 August 1987
32 m awayRef 19872000L0679
Slight
Car crash on the B4118 in Solihull, 27 November 2025
42 m awayRef 2025201675538
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the B4118 in Solihull, 1 May 2013
67 m awayRef 201320L003493
Serious
Car crash on the B4118 in Solihull, 11 November 1982
71 m awayRef 19822000L1658
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes B Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes B Class)
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 201520L003525 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 2015.