A41 crash in Birmingham on 8 July 2024 at 16:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on the A41 in Birmingham at 16:00 on Monday 8 July 2024. The 24-year-old male driver of the Mercedes A Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2024
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44304, longitude -1.81229, in the B27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Acocks Green, Birmingham, B27 7BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024201475085
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 41
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 2018.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 28 September 2018
2 m awayRef 2018200341594
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 14 September 2017
2 m awayRef 2017200227047
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 24 May 2022
2 m awayRef 2022201263746
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 27 September 2018
4 m awayRef 2018200350209
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 11 November 2005
4 m awayRef 200520E198403
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 23 April 2009
4 m awayRef 200920E051903
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2024201475085 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.