A45 crash in Birmingham on 21 May 2003 at 20:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A45 in Birmingham at 20:30 on Wednesday 21 May 2003. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 May 2003
- Wednesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46822, longitude -1.85468, in the B10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley Green, Birmingham, B9 5PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320D183403
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 2022.
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 29 May 2022
8 m awayRef 2022201264506
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 25 November 2024
9 m awayRef 2024201523281
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 18 December 2002
10 m awayRef 200220D457003
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 1 February 2004
10 m awayRef 200420D071903
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 29 September 2024
11 m awayRef 2024201497681
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A45 in Birmingham, 27 November 1998
14 m awayRef 199820D327201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200320D183403 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.