A456 crash in Birmingham on 16 May 2018 at 02:30 involving a taxi
A taxi and a car were involved in a crash on the A456 in Birmingham at 02:30 on Wednesday 16 May 2018. A 22-year-old female passenger in the taxi and a 26-year-old male passenger in the taxi were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 2018
- Wednesday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47638, longitude -1.91278, in the B1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B15 1BF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200316970
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 456
- Road type
- Single 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 2 September 2017.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 2 September 2017
1 m awayRef 2017200224190
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 26 April 2018
1 m awayRef 2018200297622
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 12 September 2015
4 m awayRef 201520W051945
Slight
Volvo crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 31 July 2004
4 m awayRef 200420F194601
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 2 September 1999
4 m awayRef 199920F210901
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 4 May 2009
4 m awayRef 200920F080001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2018200316970 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.