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Serious A4097 crash in Birmingham on 14 January 1999 at 17:18 involving a Volvo 240

A Volvo 240 hit a pedestrian on the A4097 in Birmingham at 17:18 on Thursday 14 January 1999. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
14 Jan 1999
Thursday, 17:18
Vehicles
1
Volvo 240
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52288, longitude -1.79436, in the B24 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199920D021001
Council area
Birmingham
Police force
West Midlands
Police attended the scene
No

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4097
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2025.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volvo 240

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    55 years
    Engine capacity
    2,316 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    12 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 240)

    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 199920D021001 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 1999.