A4540 crash in Birmingham on 6 January 2020 at 13:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 13:40 on Monday 6 January 2020. The 58-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jan 2020
- Monday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49266, longitude -1.88794, in the B6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown, Birmingham, B6 4PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020200929415
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5127
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 18 November 2024.
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Audi A3 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 18 November 2024
4 m awayRef 2024201519363
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Ford Transit crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 5 October 2015
5 m awayRef 201520W056025
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Daewoo Matiz crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 23 November 2005
5 m awayRef 200520D351901
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 16 December 2007
5 m awayRef 200720D503901
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Audi A3 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 30 October 2022
9 m awayRef 2022201245779
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 23 August 2016
9 m awayRef 2016200101742
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020200929415 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 2020.