A5127 crash in Birmingham on 22 November 2003 at 17:20 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro hit a pedestrian on the A5127 in Birmingham at 17:20 on Saturday 22 November 2003. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2003
- Saturday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55916, longitude -1.8265, in the B72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Sutton Coldfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton Trinity, Birmingham, B72 1QA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320D411002
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5127
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 2003.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 9 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200320D253802
Slight
Scania crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 29 March 2011
10 m awayRef 201120N017701
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 30 August 2000
14 m awayRef 200020D271902
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 9 September 2012
14 m awayRef 201220N045912
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 9 November 2007
14 m awayRef 200720D315002
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A5127 in Birmingham, 28 March 2025
16 m awayRef 2025201571278
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
- 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 200320D411002 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.