B4438 crash in Solihull on 16 June 2015 at 15:45 involving a Seat Alhambra
A Seat Alhambra and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B4438 in Solihull at 15:45 on Tuesday 16 June 2015. The 24-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus, a 3-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus and a 7-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jun 2015
- Tuesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Alhambra and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44384, longitude -1.72528, in the B92 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Meriden & Arden, Solihull, B40 1PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201520L004175
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4438
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 4438
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 2001.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4438 in Solihull, 4 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200120L084601
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the B4438 in Solihull, 3 May 2016
4 m awayRef 2016200068083
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the B4438 in Solihull, 8 May 2025
4 m awayRef 2025201588068
Serious
Mazda 2 crash on the B4438 in Solihull, 14 September 2016
7 m awayRef 2016200142719
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A45 in Solihull, 30 August 2011
10 m awayRef 201120L006561
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B4438 in Solihull, 10 March 2004
14 m awayRef 200420L057701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Alhambra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201520L004175 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.