A4040 crash in Birmingham on 26 December 2025 at 13:55 involving a Vauxhall Mokka
A Vauxhall Mokka and a car were involved in a crash on the A4040 in Birmingham at 13:55 on Friday 26 December 2025. The 32-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Mokka 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
- 26 Dec 2025
- Friday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Mokka and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48514, longitude -1.80988, in the B33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Yardley East, Birmingham, B33 8BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201688097
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4040
- 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
- Unclassified
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, 16 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 March 1994.
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 29 March 1994
16 m awayRef 19942094N0882
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 16 November 1990
16 m awayRef 19902090E2408
Serious
Car crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 16 December 1989
16 m awayRef 19892000E2589
Fatal
Iveco-Ford crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 2 December 1994
16 m awayRef 19942094N3107
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 12 November 2013
24 m awayRef 201320T057573
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 13 January 2000
26 m awayRef 200020D022503
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Mokka)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025201688097 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.