A4040 crash in Birmingham on 19 July 2003 at 12:50 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on the A4040 in Birmingham at 12:50 on Saturday 19 July 2003. An 8-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 private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 2003
- Saturday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52396, longitude -1.85611, in the B23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stockland Green, Birmingham, B23 6JE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320D262101
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4040
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 2002.
Slight
Car crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 29 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200220D511201
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 8 January 2009
At the same spotRef 200920D028602
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 4 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200720D509602
Slight
Kia Xceed crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 7 August 2025
5 m awayRef 2025201627328
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 27 July 2011
10 m awayRef 201120N040401
Slight
Toyota Previa crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 19 July 2007
10 m awayRef 200720D205501
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- 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 200320D262101 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.