Unclassified road crash in Solihull B91 on 21 July 2025 at 04:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on an unclassified road in Solihull at 04:00 on Monday 21 July 2025. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Monday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40844, longitude -1.77922, in the B91 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Alphege with Monkspath & Hillfield, Solihull, B91 3DN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201618772
- Council area
- Solihull
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 39 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 September 2007.
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 18 September 2007
39 m awayRef 200720L157001
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 25 March 2011
40 m awayRef 201120L003011
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 7 February 1989
43 m awayRef 19892000L0137
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 10 February 1994
43 m awayRef 19942094L0121
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 21 August 1985
43 m awayRef 19852000L1311
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 9 May 2025
43 m awayRef 2025201588293
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2025201618772 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 2025.