A34 crash in Birmingham on 23 October 2019 at 13:47 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A car and a Volkswagen Touran were involved in a crash on the A34 in Birmingham at 13:47 on Wednesday 23 October 2019. The 48-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Touran 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
- 23 Oct 2019
- Wednesday, 13:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Touran
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4522, longitude -1.86527, in the B11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East, Birmingham, B11 4AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019200909267
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 1998.
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 15 February 1998
4 m awayRef 199820E044001
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 22 June 2009
7 m awayRef 200920E078403
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 30 December 2008
7 m awayRef 200820E501803
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 23 October 2009
9 m awayRef 200920E132803
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 16 October 2008
9 m awayRef 200820E142403
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 23 February 1989
14 m awayRef 19892000E0357
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Touran)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019200909267 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 2019.