Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B4 on 26 March 2015 at 16:25 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
A bicycle and an Alexander Dennis bus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 16:25 on Thursday 26 March 2015. The 30-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2015
- Thursday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48115, longitude -1.89556, in the B4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B2 4DH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201520W020995
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2000.
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 14 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200020F317701
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 9 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200720F237901
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 21 March 2007
At the same spotRef 200720F068901
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 11 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200820F217101
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 24 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200820F204201
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 27 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200320F046101
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Cycle lane (on main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 30, on vehicle 1 (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 201520W020995 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.