B4142 crash in Birmingham on 14 September 2025 at 12:59 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Vauxhall Insignia were involved in a crash on the B4142 in Birmingham at 12:59 on Sunday 14 September 2025. The 31-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Insignia was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 2025
- Sunday, 12:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Vauxhall Insignia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52627, longitude -1.84295, in the B23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Erdington, Birmingham, B23 6TG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201641563
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4142
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 1 December 2025.
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 1 December 2025
6 m awayRef 2025201676356
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 20 September 2003
9 m awayRef 200320D332902
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 26 February 2011
9 m awayRef 201120N032521
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 9 November 1998
10 m awayRef 199820D313801
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 13 September 2003
10 m awayRef 200320D329002
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 7 February 2009
16 m awayRef 200920D047102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Insignia)
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 2025201641563 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.