B4284 crash in Birmingham on 29 September 1998 at 16:15 involving a Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry
A Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry hit a pedestrian on the B4284 in Birmingham at 16:15 on Tuesday 29 September 1998. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 1998
- Tuesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland DAF FA 45
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47155, longitude -1.92017, in the B15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199820F202101
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4284
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 2009.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland DAF FA 45
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Leyland DAF FA 45)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, 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 199820F202101 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.