Serious A41 crash in Birmingham on 9 May 2003 at 17:55 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on the A41 in Birmingham at 17:55 on Friday 9 May 2003. A 53-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 May 2003
- Friday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46321, longitude -1.87618, in the B11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley Green, Birmingham, B10 0BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320E100603
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- 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
- 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 2 April 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 2 April 2012
At the same spotRef 201220T016922
Slight
Fiat Bravo crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 29 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200720E119503
Slight
Kymco People crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 14 February 2008
At the same spotRef 200820E026803
Slight
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A34 in Birmingham, 19 July 2019
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Fatal
Alexander Dennis crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 28 May 2021
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Serious
Honda GLR 125 crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 4 September 2022
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,268 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200320E100603 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.