Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B18 on 2 March 2002 at 14:01 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 14:01 on Saturday 2 March 2002. A 14-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2002
- Saturday, 14:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4941, longitude -1.94193, in the B18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Soho & Victoria, Sandwell, B66 2LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220F070502
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 2021.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 11 December 2021
7 m awayRef 2021201149186
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 1 March 2019
49 m awayRef 2019200826407
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 23 January 1987
50 m awayRef 19872000C0072
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 12 April 2007
50 m awayRef 200720K043402
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 17 April 1993
50 m awayRef 19932093C0592
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 5 December 1984
50 m awayRef 19842000C2741
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,188 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 200220F070502 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.