Serious A456 crash in Birmingham on 22 November 2015 at 22:00 involving a Mitsubishi
A Mitsubishi crashed on the A456 in Birmingham at 22:00 on Sunday 22 November 2015. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Nov 2015
- Sunday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47263, longitude -1.92031, in the B16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B15 1BF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201520W059945
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 2007.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 28 January 2007
10 m awayRef 200720F028402
Fatal
Seat Leon crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 24 September 2008
10 m awayRef 200820F181702
Slight
Seat Alhambra crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 26 September 2002
14 m awayRef 200220F268802
Slight
Bus crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 3 June 2014
22 m awayRef 201420S036284
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 23 August 1990
22 m awayRef 19902090C1353
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 16 November 2000
22 m awayRef 200020F286501
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi)
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 201520W059945 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.