A38 crash in Birmingham on 15 June 2002 at 12:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A38 in Birmingham at 12:50 on Saturday 15 June 2002. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jun 2002
- Saturday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41257, longitude -1.97277, in the B31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northfield, Birmingham, B31 2PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220E122601
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 2002.
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 20 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200220E179401
Slight
Piaggio Zip crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 11 June 1998
At the same spotRef 199820E149601
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 17 December 2016
4 m awayRef 2016200144227
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 31 August 2024
5 m awayRef 2024201487622
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 3 March 2014
10 m awayRef 201420S013724
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 20 January 2006
10 m awayRef 200620E029301
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200220E122601 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.