A4540 crash in Birmingham on 2 October 2020 at 06:34 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 06:34 on Friday 2 October 2020. A 53-year-old male passenger in the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 2020
- Friday, 06:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4819, longitude -1.8785, in the B4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham, B5 5RT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020200989686
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 2017.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 14 April 2017
2 m awayRef 2017200176857
Serious
Triumph crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 5 January 2007
4 m awayRef 200720F008501
Slight
Scania crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 25 May 2006
4 m awayRef 200620F127401
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 7 July 2021
12 m awayRef 2021201103696
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 14 April 2000
13 m awayRef 200020D122301
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 7 October 2000
13 m awayRef 200020F249301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 53, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
- 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 2020200989686 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.