A4540 crash in Birmingham on 1 November 2002 at 21:49 involving a Nissan Sunny
A Nissan Sunny hit a pedestrian on the A4540 in Birmingham at 21:49 on Friday 1 November 2002. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2002
- Friday, 21:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Sunny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48276, longitude -1.92295, in the B18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B16 0DN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220F313102
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a fatal crash on 13 July 2005.
Fatal
Honda VFR750F crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 13 July 2005
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Mercedes crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 10 November 2010
30 m awayRef 201020W505460
Slight
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 23 December 1989
32 m awayRef 19892000C1777
Serious
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 27 February 1980
32 m awayRef 19802000C0497
Fatal
Van crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 31 July 1989
32 m awayRef 19892000C0922
Serious
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 11 February 2020
50 m awayRef 2020200931753
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)
- 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 200220F313102 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.