A4040 crash in Birmingham on 29 September 2017 at 16:14 involving a BMW 7 Series
A BMW 7 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the A4040 in Birmingham at 16:14 on Friday 29 September 2017. The 36-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 2017
- Friday, 16:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 7 Series and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45514, longitude -1.95424, in the B17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harborne, Birmingham, B17 9QE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200241562
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4040
- Road type
- Dual 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 March 2025.
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 22 March 2025
At the same spotRef 2025201571230
Serious
Mazda 6 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 27 March 2018
1 m awayRef 2018200325333
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 23 January 2021
1 m awayRef 2021201033755
Slight
BMW X1 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 15 October 2019
1 m awayRef 2019200905379
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 26 May 2023
2 m awayRef 2023201375050
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 22 January 2021
3 m awayRef 2021201023369
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 7 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2017200241562 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.