Serious A4400 crash in Birmingham on 3 November 2023 at 21:09 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A4400 in Birmingham at 21:09 on Friday 3 November 2023. The 25-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Nov 2023
- Friday, 21:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48391, longitude -1.90161, in the B3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B2 4DH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023201416762
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4400
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 May 2008.
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 26 May 2008
4 m awayRef 200820F124901
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 5 March 2007
4 m awayRef 200720F068501
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 16 May 2002
4 m awayRef 200220F170901
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 15 November 2001
4 m awayRef 200120F363601
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 9 November 2015
6 m awayRef 201520W059955
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 27 June 2025
9 m awayRef 2025201608335
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2023201416762 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.