A4540 crash in Birmingham on 3 June 1980 at 08:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4540 in Birmingham at 08:30 on Tuesday 3 June 1980. A 39-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 3 Jun 1980
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47367, longitude -1.87482, in the B9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19802000E1569
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 1994.
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 10 May 1994
At the same spotRef 19942094N1253
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Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 27 June 1981
At the same spotRef 19812000E1719
Slight
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 20 February 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000E0332
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Renault Kangoo crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 29 April 2015
10 m awayRef 201520W023895
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Fiat Cinquecento crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 25 July 2005
14 m awayRef 200520D234103
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Rover 400 Series crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 18 June 2001
14 m awayRef 200120F217101
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 19802000E1569 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 1980.