Serious B4121 crash in Birmingham on 7 August 2018 at 14:45 involving a Hyundai i20
A Hyundai i20 crashed on the B4121 in Birmingham at 14:45 on Tuesday 7 August 2018. A 57-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 54-year-old female driver and a 42-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Aug 2018
- Tuesday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai i20
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45324, longitude -1.98022, in the B32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Quinton, Birmingham, B32 2SA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200319784
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4121
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 2024.
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the B4121 in Birmingham, 29 January 2024
11 m awayRef 2024201472173
Slight
LDV Maxus crash on the B4121 in Birmingham, 14 October 2021
14 m awayRef 2021201149475
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 15 September 2004
14 m awayRef 200420F249502
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4121 in Birmingham, 5 March 2024
39 m awayRef 2024201470232
Serious
Car crash on the B4121 in Birmingham, 21 October 2012
40 m awayRef 201220S049242
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 21 June 1987
45 m awayRef 19872000C0723
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i20
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i20)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i20)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i20)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2018200319784 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.