A51 crash in Tamworth on 29 March 2017 at 17:01 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A51 in Tamworth at 17:01 on Wednesday 29 March 2017. A 10-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra and a 10-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 2017
- Wednesday, 17:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61181, longitude -1.68262, in the B77 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tamworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belgrave, Tamworth, B77 2TG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tamworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017210169743
- Council area
- Tamworth
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 51
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5404
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 2013.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A51 in Tamworth, 31 January 2013
4 m awayRef 2013213000940
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the B5404 in Tamworth, 30 July 2021
4 m awayRef 2021211072085
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in Tamworth, 8 June 1985
5 m awayRef 1985215500416
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Tamworth, 16 January 1981
5 m awayRef 1981211500025
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Tamworth, 10 April 1985
5 m awayRef 1985215500226
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A51 in Tamworth, 29 May 2013
6 m awayRef 2013213002767
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2017210169743 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 2017.