A456 crash in Birmingham on 3 February 2015 at 21:39 involving a car
A car crashed on the A456 in Birmingham at 21:39 on Tuesday 3 February 2015. The 20-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 2015
- Tuesday, 21:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46654, longitude -1.9792, in the B17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Quinton, Birmingham, B17 8AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201520S008015
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 456
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 1989.
Slight
Bus crash on the A456 in Sandwell, 28 February 1989
10 m awayRef 19892000K0371
Serious
Car crash on the A456 in Sandwell, 31 August 1987
10 m awayRef 19872000K1308
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 6 February 1997
10 m awayRef 19972097F0325
Slight
Car crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 18 September 1983
10 m awayRef 19832000C1909
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 14 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200020F317301
Slight
Talbot crash on the A456 in Sandwell, 12 August 1994
10 m awayRef 19942094K1403
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201520S008015 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 2015.