Unclassified road crash in Solihull B37 on 9 January 2020 at 08:20 involving a taxi
A taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Solihull at 08:20 on Thursday 9 January 2020. The 13-year-old male cyclist 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
- 9 Jan 2020
- Thursday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48354, longitude -1.74455, in the B37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fordbridge, Solihull, B37 5FD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020200933717
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 1998.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 31 March 1998
40 m awayRef 199820L034301
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 11 August 1997
48 m awayRef 19972097L0723
Slight
Talbot Solara crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 8 May 1991
59 m awayRef 19912091L0421
Slight
Ford S-Max crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 26 April 2014
60 m awayRef 201420L002704
Slight
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 30 April 2011
90 m awayRef 201120L003541
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 30 August 2002
90 m awayRef 200220L153201
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 13, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2020200933717 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2020.