B4140 crash in Birmingham on 26 December 2020 at 19:10 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on the B4140 in Birmingham at 19:10 on Saturday 26 December 2020. The 20-year-old male driver of the Seat Leon, an 11-year-old female passenger in the Seat Leon and a 14-year-old male passenger in the Seat Leon were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2020
- Saturday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50953, longitude -1.88987, in the B6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aston, Birmingham, B20 3DP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020201022763
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4140
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B4140 in Birmingham, 10 May 2017
1 m awayRef 2017200183091
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4140 in Birmingham, 5 January 2021
1 m awayRef 2021201014021
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 13 November 2015
2 m awayRef 2015200033931
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the B4140 in Birmingham, 23 September 2018
2 m awayRef 2018200349826
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B4140 in Birmingham, 22 January 2016
3 m awayRef 2016200042279
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 25 August 2002
4 m awayRef 200220D296301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2020201022763 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.