Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B18 on 31 August 2024 at 18:48 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 18:48 on Saturday 31 August 2024. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Aug 2024
- Saturday, 18:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49717, longitude -1.92787, in the B18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Soho & Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, B21 9SU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024201485842
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2014.
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Yamaha YZF R125 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 2 December 2014
6 m awayRef 201420W060264
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Renault crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 14 April 2012
6 m awayRef 201220W018982
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 25 September 2005
31 m awayRef 200520F278502
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Scania crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 15 August 2003
32 m awayRef 200320F219503
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Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 1 June 2002
46 m awayRef 200220F165403
Slight
Alfa Romeo Mito crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 28 July 2015
46 m awayRef 201520W045545
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2024201485842 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.