B5440 crash in Tamworth on 2 December 2016 at 10:15 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a Hyundai Getz were involved in a crash on the B5440 in Tamworth at 10:15 on Friday 2 December 2016. The 57-year-old female driver of the Hyundai Getz 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
- 2 Dec 2016
- Friday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and Hyundai Getz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61788, longitude -1.67447, in the B77 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tamworth.
Map of where the crash happened in Tamworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016210136693
- Council area
- Tamworth
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5440
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 2018.
Slight
Car crash on the B5440 in Tamworth, 22 January 2018
At the same spotRef 2018210285982
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Tamworth, 4 August 2018
At the same spotRef 2018210325911
Slight
Renault crash on the B5440 in Tamworth, 24 October 1992
21 m awayRef 1992212515716
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5440 in Tamworth, 28 April 1991
21 m awayRef 1991211512042
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5440 in Tamworth, 19 July 1980
21 m awayRef 1980210500347
Slight
Car crash on the B5440 in Tamworth, 21 November 1981
21 m awayRef 1981211500813
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Getz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,341 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Getz)
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 2016210136693 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tamworth road accident statistics for 2016.