Serious A41 crash in Birmingham on 9 January 2002 at 17:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A41 in Birmingham at 17:45 on Wednesday 9 January 2002. A 50-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Jan 2002
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45438, longitude -1.85708, in the B11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sparkhill, Birmingham, B11 3TA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220E014903
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 8 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199820E301301
Slight
Scania crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 2 June 2010
10 m awayRef 201020T019520
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 29 March 2011
10 m awayRef 201120T016661
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 9 September 2023
12 m awayRef 2023201405807
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 21 October 2016
28 m awayRef 2016200123623
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 26 October 2018
28 m awayRef 2018200339595
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag exit lines
- 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 200220E014903 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 2002.