A47 crash in Birmingham on 3 July 1980 at 16:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A47 in Birmingham at 16:05 on Thursday 3 July 1980. A 46-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 Jul 1980
- Thursday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49163, longitude -1.86004, in the B8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19802000E1888
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 47
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 1993.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A47 in Birmingham, 11 November 1993
At the same spotRef 19932093E1950
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 14 November 1988
At the same spotRef 19882000E2212
Slight
Van crash on the A47 in Birmingham, 15 March 1983
At the same spotRef 19832000E0751
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A47 in Birmingham, 6 February 1997
At the same spotRef 19972097D0376
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Birmingham, 6 July 1985
At the same spotRef 19852000E1851
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A47 in Birmingham, 23 February 1982
At the same spotRef 19822000E0493
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 46, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 19802000E1888 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.