A435 crash in Birmingham on 5 August 2025 at 18:40 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Toyota Aygo were involved in a crash on the A435 in Birmingham at 18:40 on Tuesday 5 August 2025. The 26-year-old male driver of the Toyota Aygo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2025
- Tuesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44826, longitude -1.888, in the B13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Moseley, Birmingham, B13 8AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201625907
- 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
- 435
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2019.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 28 December 2019
1 m awayRef 2019200917244
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 16 February 2001
2 m awayRef 200120E082003
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 22 April 2016
2 m awayRef 2016200065473
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 24 August 2000
2 m awayRef 200020E203601
Slight
Audi TT crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 9 September 2011
2 m awayRef 201120T047641
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 11 January 2002
2 m awayRef 200220E029203
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Aygo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025201625907 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 2025.