A4540 crash in Birmingham on 18 June 2017 at 15:30 involving a Fiat Bravo
A Fiat Bravo and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 15:30 on Sunday 18 June 2017. The 34-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jun 2017
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Bravo and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49215, longitude -1.88928, in the B6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown, Birmingham, B19 3SN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200206402
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 38
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2024.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 7 October 2024
1 m awayRef 2024201542363
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 27 February 2021
4 m awayRef 2021201064395
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 13 August 2020
4 m awayRef 2020200983951
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 26 April 2023
5 m awayRef 2023201315940
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 1 April 2025
5 m awayRef 2025201572189
Slight
Volkswagen Eos crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 20 December 2017
5 m awayRef 2017200263018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Bravo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 2017200206402 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.