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Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B7 on 30 January 2003 at 20:11 involving a Mercedes bus

A Mercedes bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 20:11 on Thursday 30 January 2003. A 21-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
30 Jan 2003
Thursday, 20:11
Vehicles
1
Mercedes
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4892, longitude -1.88509, in the B7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown, Birmingham, B6 4PJ area accident hotspot.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200320D053401
Council area
Birmingham
Police force
West Midlands
Police attended the scene
No

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
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
4540

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Other
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 2015.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Mercedes

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    47 years
    Engine capacity
    11,967 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    16 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes)

    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 200320D053401 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 2003.