Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B72 on 6 April 2017 at 10:22 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a BMW 1 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 10:22 on Thursday 6 April 2017. The 32-year-old female driver of the Mini Cooper and the 68-year-old male driver of the BMW 1 Series were 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
- 6 Apr 2017
- Thursday, 10:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54651, longitude -1.81211, in the B72 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton Walmley & Minworth, Birmingham, B76 1QU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200175508
- 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
- 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%
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The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2002.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 1 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017200175508 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 2017.