A4540 crash in Birmingham on 19 January 1998 at 18:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on the A4540 in Birmingham at 18:30 on Monday 19 January 1998. A 45-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jan 1998
- Monday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47052, longitude -1.87645, in the B10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199820E019201
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 29 January 2018
6 m awayRef 2018200265682
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 5 March 2018
8 m awayRef 2018200281838
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 13 March 2015
10 m awayRef 201520T020585
Slight
Renault 9 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 20 November 2000
20 m awayRef 200020D368803
Serious
Audi S3 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 10 April 2024
21 m awayRef 2024201460380
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 10 January 2012
28 m awayRef 201220W003882
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 199820E019201 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 1998.