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Serious B4148 crash in Birmingham on 29 April 1989 at 20:05 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B4148 in Birmingham at 20:05 on Saturday 29 April 1989. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
29 Apr 1989
Saturday, 20:05
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51675, longitude -1.8187, in the B24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19892000D0701
Council area
Birmingham
Police force
West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
4148
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
4097

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 serious injury crash on 7 April 1983.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    25 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, 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 19892000D0701 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 1989.