A4540 crash in Birmingham on 4 October 2000 at 22:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4540 in Birmingham at 22:40 on Wednesday 4 October 2000. A 25-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, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 2000
- Wednesday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46466, longitude -1.89237, in the B12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200020E247401
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 1 February 1989
10 m awayRef 19892000F0081
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 1 May 1985
10 m awayRef 19852000B1199
Slight
Polestar 2 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 22 March 2024
10 m awayRef 2024201425264
Serious
Fiat Stilo crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 15 November 2005
10 m awayRef 200520E203003
Slight
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 8 May 1987
10 m awayRef 19872000B0728
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 25 July 1983
10 m awayRef 19832000F1140
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 200020E247401 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 2000.