Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B10 on 8 July 2016 at 01:04 involving a Volkswagen Touran taxi
A Volkswagen Touran taxi and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 01:04 on Friday 8 July 2016. The 37-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Touran taxi was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2016
- Friday, 01:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Touran and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4723, longitude -1.86515, in the B10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley Green, Birmingham, B10 0BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200087673
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 2009.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 24 August 2009
3 m awayRef 200920D209103
Slight
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Serious
Kia Ceed crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 30 March 2022
7 m awayRef 2022201170063
Slight
Metrocab Metrocab crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 11 May 2004
8 m awayRef 200420D168703
Slight
Leyland crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 11 December 2000
11 m awayRef 200020D401203
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 31 January 2013
12 m awayRef 201320W010783
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Engine capacity
- 2,204 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Touran)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2016200087673 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.