Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B18 on 12 May 2016 at 17:05 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 17:05 on Thursday 12 May 2016. The 27-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xsara was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2016
- Thursday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xsara and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48224, longitude -1.92368, in the B18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B16 0DN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200071504
- Council area
- Birmingham
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4540
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2010.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 21 March 2010
9 m awayRef 201020F052512
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 4 November 2024
9 m awayRef 2024201512341
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 14 December 2017
10 m awayRef 2017200257303
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 21 January 2023
11 m awayRef 2023201287777
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 10 October 2008
12 m awayRef 200820F194002
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 31 December 2019
13 m awayRef 2019200923613
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 2016200071504 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 2016.