Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B20 on 17 December 2025 at 09:30 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Toyota Prius were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 09:30 on Wednesday 17 December 2025. A 30-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Prius 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
- 17 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51298, longitude -1.92588, in the B20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, B20 2DU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201685032
- 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
- Unclassified
- 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
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4040
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, 18 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 July 2013.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 23 July 2013
18 m awayRef 201320W035643
Serious
BMW 7 Series crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 15 August 2008
19 m awayRef 200820F160603
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 13 October 1999
22 m awayRef 199920F254101
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 5 November 2009
26 m awayRef 200920F202303
Slight
Volvo 760 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 4 October 2003
26 m awayRef 200320F269703
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 10 September 2005
26 m awayRef 200520F224503
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Prius)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2025201685032 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.