Serious unclassified road crash in Birmingham B15 on 19 April 2023 at 13:25 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Volkswagen T-Roc were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 13:25 on Wednesday 19 April 2023. The 33-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen T-Roc was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Apr 2023
- Wednesday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Volkswagen T-Roc
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47081, longitude -1.91175, in the B15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B15 2BG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023201310069
- Council area
- Birmingham
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4540
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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 2003.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 15 September 2003
3 m awayRef 200320F259402
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 29 April 2025
4 m awayRef 2025201585911
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 24 April 2003
8 m awayRef 200320F106802
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 20 December 2017
8 m awayRef 2017200259748
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 17 April 2023
9 m awayRef 2023201301390
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 3 October 2002
14 m awayRef 200220F276202
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen T-Roc
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen T-Roc)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
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 2023201310069 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 2023.