Serious unclassified road crash in Birmingham B74 on 28 November 2025 at 23:12 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 23:12 on Friday 28 November 2025. The 36-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Nov 2025
- Friday, 23:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59283, longitude -1.83551, in the B74 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Sutton Coldfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton Four Oaks, Birmingham, B74 4AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201675511
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 5127
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 2024.
Slight
Audi A1 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 10 April 2024
2 m awayRef 2024201467101
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 15 April 2017
7 m awayRef 2017200177352
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 9 June 2016
8 m awayRef 2016200128849
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 16 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199920D341201
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 7 September 2004
10 m awayRef 200420D306002
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 18 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200120D508802
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025201675511 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.