A34 crash in Birmingham on 29 December 1988 at 15:55 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the A34 in Birmingham at 15:55 on Thursday 29 December 1988. An 80-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1988
- Thursday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44668, longitude -1.86165, in the B11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19882000E2578
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 22 August 1991
At the same spotRef 19912091E5258
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 15 June 1993
At the same spotRef 19932093E1095
Slight
Mazda E2200 crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 27 November 1991
At the same spotRef 19912091E5367
Slight
Toyota Tercel crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 29 December 1996
At the same spotRef 19962096E3295
Serious
Car crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 9 July 1985
At the same spotRef 19852000E1885
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 15 February 1993
At the same spotRef 19932093E0273
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 19882000E2578 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 1988.