A38 crash in Birmingham on 11 November 2017 at 08:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A38 in Birmingham at 08:00 on Saturday 11 November 2017. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Nov 2017
- Saturday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48633, longitude -1.89195, in the B4 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
- 2017200240751
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2025.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 6 August 2025
13 m awayRef 2025201627609
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 17 July 2005
16 m awayRef 200520F172101
Serious
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 9 November 2017
20 m awayRef 2017200247395
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 6 October 1999
21 m awayRef 199920F242801
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 27 June 2003
22 m awayRef 200320F170901
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 26 November 2005
26 m awayRef 200520F306001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2017200240751 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.