Serious A456 crash in Birmingham on 24 July 1987 at 14:28 involving a lorry
A lorry hit a pedestrian on the A456 in Birmingham at 14:28 on Friday 24 July 1987. A 77-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jul 1987
- Friday, 14:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47283, longitude -1.96757, in the B66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19872000C0891
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 456
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A456 in Sandwell, 17 June 1980
At the same spotRef 19802000K1242
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 29 December 1991
At the same spotRef 19912091C5308
Serious
Car crash on the A456 in Sandwell, 30 June 1990
At the same spotRef 19902090K1311
Slight
Car crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 12 April 1982
At the same spotRef 19822000C0747
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 8 August 1991
At the same spotRef 19912091C5186
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 18 May 1980
At the same spotRef 19802000C1049
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 77, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 19872000C0891 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 1987.