A41 crash in Birmingham on 24 January 2018 at 15:05 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Peugeot 208 were involved in a crash on the A41 in Birmingham at 15:05 on Wednesday 24 January 2018. The 20-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 208, a 19-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 208 and a male passenger in the Peugeot 208 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2018
- Wednesday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Peugeot 208
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44301, longitude -1.8124, in the B27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Acocks Green, Birmingham, B27 7BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200267722
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- 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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 2018.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 27 September 2018
8 m awayRef 2018200350209
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 28 September 2018
9 m awayRef 2018200341594
Slight
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 6 January 2009
9 m awayRef 200920E005302
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 8 July 2024
9 m awayRef 2024201475085
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 24 May 2022
9 m awayRef 2022201263746
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 14 September 2017
9 m awayRef 2017200227047
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 208)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 208)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 208)
- 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 2018200267722 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 2018.