Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B5 on 10 October 2001 at 10:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 10:30 on Wednesday 10 October 2001. A 60-year-old male 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
- 10 Oct 2001
- Wednesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47429, longitude -1.8975, in the B5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B2 4DH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200120F334801
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 200120F334801 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 2001.