Serious unclassified road crash in Birmingham B38 on 26 December 2002 at 19:38 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 19:38 on Thursday 26 December 2002. A 16-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, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Dec 2002
- Thursday, 19:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40051, longitude -1.94882, in the B38 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longbridge & West Heath, Birmingham, B31 3HR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220E255501
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 2002.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 8 November 2002
22 m awayRef 200220E240101
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 12 August 2015
22 m awayRef 201520S047625
Slight
Mercedes GLC Class crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 13 January 2025
23 m awayRef 2025201540971
Serious
Volkswagen T-Cross crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 25 July 2023
29 m awayRef 2023201354390
Serious
Rover 100 Series crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 1 May 1999
32 m awayRef 199920E109501
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 24 July 2008
45 m awayRef 200820E124502
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200220E255501 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.