A34 crash in Birmingham on 1 July 1998 at 23:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A34 in Birmingham at 23:45 on Wednesday 1 July 1998. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 1998
- Wednesday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44497, longitude -1.85931, 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
- 199820E157401
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 2009.
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 20 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200920E105203
Slight
Volvo crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 10 April 2000
At the same spotRef 200020E096701
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 5 May 2023
4 m awayRef 2023201328556
Serious
Nissan Interstar crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 18 July 2025
4 m awayRef 2025201617706
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 27 August 2023
5 m awayRef 2023201383922
Slight
Audi Q3 crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 23 December 2023
7 m awayRef 2023201392642
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 199820E157401 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.