A38 crash in Birmingham on 26 September 2003 at 19:30 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 hit a pedestrian on the A38 in Birmingham at 19:30 on Friday 26 September 2003. A 24-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2003
- Friday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 25
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44348, longitude -1.93641, in the B29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bournbrook & Selly Park, Birmingham, B29 6DP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320E187601
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2018.
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the B384 in Birmingham, 26 May 2018
2 m awayRef 2018200309473
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 17 January 2006
10 m awayRef 200620E009001
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Dennis crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 28 May 2006
10 m awayRef 200620E091401
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Honda Accord crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 24 November 1998
10 m awayRef 199820E332301
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Nissan Micra crash on the B384 in Birmingham, 19 June 2020
10 m awayRef 2020200961556
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Rover Metro crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 17 March 2000
14 m awayRef 200020E074201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 25)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 200320E187601 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.