B4438 crash in Solihull on 26 March 2024 at 10:05 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Toyota Aygo were involved in a crash on the B4438 in Solihull at 10:05 on Tuesday 26 March 2024. The 32-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2024
- Tuesday, 10:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45143, longitude -1.72905, in the B26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Meriden & Arden, Solihull, B92 0DX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024201424923
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4438
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4438
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 January 2017.
Serious
Car crash on the B4438 in Solihull, 3 January 2017
9 m awayRef 2017200143525
Fatal
Tesla Model 3 crash on the B4438 in Solihull, 15 December 2022
40 m awayRef 2022201255990
Serious
Renault Trafic crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 30 March 1992
47 m awayRef 19922092L0266
Serious
Austin Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 24 March 1992
47 m awayRef 19922092L0244
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 27 December 1989
47 m awayRef 19892000L1369
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 27 April 2012
54 m awayRef 201220L006332
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2024201424923 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2024.