Serious unclassified road crash in Birmingham B14 on 21 April 2018 at 15:26 involving a Toyota Auris
A Toyota Auris and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 15:26 on Saturday 21 April 2018. The 58-year-old male driver of the Toyota Auris was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Apr 2018
- Saturday, 15:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Auris and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41787, longitude -1.90414, in the B14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brandwood & King's Heath, Birmingham, B14 6HP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200300953
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 2012.
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 31 December 2012
6 m awayRef 201220S510962
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 21 November 1982
85 m awayRef 19822000B3256
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 6 September 1995
112 m awayRef 19952095E2079
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 27 November 1986
117 m awayRef 19862000H2621
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 21 September 2009
121 m awayRef 200920E136802
Slight
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122 m awayRef 2024201453321
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Auris)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018200300953 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.