A4540 crash in Birmingham on 10 December 2025 at 08:39 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Mercedes GLC Class were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 08:39 on Wednesday 10 December 2025. The 51-year-old female driver of the Mercedes GLC Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 08:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Mercedes GLC Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46655, longitude -1.89745, in the B5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham, B5 7HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201680877
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 441
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2022.
Slight
Tesla Model 3 crash on the A441 in Birmingham, 23 March 2022
5 m awayRef 2022201246097
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A441 in Birmingham, 3 May 2012
6 m awayRef 201220S022672
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 16 August 1998
7 m awayRef 199820F170601
Slight
Audi Q3 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 6 April 2019
11 m awayRef 2019200862855
Serious
Car crash on the A441 in Birmingham, 5 October 2005
15 m awayRef 200520F236401
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 27 August 1999
15 m awayRef 199920F210501
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Mercedes GLC Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,950 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes GLC Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2025201680877 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.