A45 crash in Birmingham on 19 September 2025 at 21:45 involving an Audi SQ5
An Audi SQ5 and a Toyota Auris were involved in a crash on the A45 in Birmingham at 21:45 on Friday 19 September 2025. The 46-year-old male driver of the Toyota Auris was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 2025
- Friday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi SQ5 and Toyota Auris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4708, longitude -1.8721, in the B10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley Green, Birmingham, B10 0BW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201644029
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 2011.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 12 January 2011
12 m awayRef 201120W003541
Slight
Citroen DS4 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 3 February 2014
15 m awayRef 201420W007504
Slight
MG ZR crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 8 October 2004
24 m awayRef 200420D342203
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 17 June 1992
24 m awayRef 19922092E1011
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 30 March 1987
24 m awayRef 19872000E0569
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 4 October 2007
24 m awayRef 200720D269603
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi SQ5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Auris)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2025201644029 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.