Serious A4040 crash in Birmingham on 16 August 1999 at 21:50 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra hit a pedestrian on the A4040 in Birmingham at 21:50 on Monday 16 August 1999. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Aug 1999
- Monday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50929, longitude -1.95282, in the B21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199920F197801
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4040
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 1999.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 18 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199920F291501
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Slight
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Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 14 September 2010
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- 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 199920F197801 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.