A4167 crash in Birmingham on 22 March 2018 at 15:25 involving a Volkswagen Passat taxi
A Volkswagen Passat taxi and a BMW 1 Series were involved in a crash on the A4167 in Birmingham at 15:25 on Thursday 22 March 2018. The 44-year-old male driver of the BMW 1 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 2018
- Thursday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.463, longitude -1.8856, in the B12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham, B5 7HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200293253
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4167
- Road type
- Single 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4540
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 3 March 2018.
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A4167 in Birmingham, 3 March 2018
1 m awayRef 2018200282461
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 17 December 1998
1 m awayRef 199820E330101
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 30 July 2016
3 m awayRef 2016200096399
Slight
Mini Countryman crash on the A4167 in Birmingham, 10 July 2018
4 m awayRef 2018200335163
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A4167 in Birmingham, 13 April 2018
4 m awayRef 2018200308971
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 26 June 2024
5 m awayRef 2024201470309
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Taxi or private hire 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 1 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2018200293253 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.