B4145 crash in Birmingham on 21 September 2023 at 01:53 involving a Volkswagen Golf
Two Volkswagen Golfs were involved in a crash on the B4145 in Birmingham at 01:53 on Thursday 21 September 2023. The 21-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 22-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 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
- 21 Sep 2023
- Thursday, 01:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47366, longitude -1.85521, in the B9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley Green, Birmingham, B9 5PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023201372932
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4145
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 30 March 2024.
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the B4145 in Birmingham, 30 March 2024
At the same spotRef 2024201426462
Serious
Volkswagen Touareg crash on the B4145 in Birmingham, 7 November 2021
1 m awayRef 2021201145435
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the B4145 in Birmingham, 17 August 2020
1 m awayRef 2020200984001
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B4145 in Birmingham, 24 March 2020
1 m awayRef 2020200946377
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4145 in Birmingham, 11 November 2023
2 m awayRef 2023201418466
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 8 January 2007
3 m awayRef 200720D018103
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2023201372932 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.