B4148 crash in Birmingham on 21 December 2016 at 23:00 involving a Ford Puma
A Ford Puma crashed on the B4148 in Birmingham at 23:00 on Wednesday 21 December 2016. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Puma
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53256, longitude -1.80039, in the B76 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Sutton Coldfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton Walmley & Minworth, Birmingham, B76 1HZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200145742
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4148
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4148 in Birmingham, 3 May 2003
4 m awayRef 200320D162702
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4148 in Birmingham, 19 August 2005
6 m awayRef 200520D246502
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4148 in Birmingham, 22 May 2005
14 m awayRef 200520D169902
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4148 in Birmingham, 18 June 2005
14 m awayRef 200520D200402
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4148 in Birmingham, 21 November 2004
24 m awayRef 200420D395802
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the B4148 in Birmingham, 2 November 2003
27 m awayRef 200320D416802
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,679 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Puma)
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 2016200145742 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.