Serious A4540 crash in Birmingham on 2 March 2024 at 05:50 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 05:50 on Saturday 2 March 2024. The 20-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Mar 2024
- Saturday, 05:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48899, longitude -1.88532, in the B7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown, Birmingham, B19 3SN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024201432210
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- 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
- 4133
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 2020.
Slight
Audi RS6 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 10 January 2020
1 m awayRef 2020200929975
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 6 March 2003
5 m awayRef 200320F068001
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 24 January 2024
5 m awayRef 2024201402659
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 27 April 2002
5 m awayRef 200220F125301
Slight
Kawasaki EX500 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 27 January 1998
7 m awayRef 199820F022301
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 6 April 2011
7 m awayRef 201120W018931
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 20, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2024201432210 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 2024.