Serious A457 crash in Birmingham on 15 January 2003 at 14:05 involving a Toyota Camry
A Toyota Camry hit a pedestrian on the A457 in Birmingham at 14:05 on Wednesday 15 January 2003. A 19-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
- 15 Jan 2003
- Wednesday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Camry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48645, longitude -1.93856, in the B18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Edgbaston, Birmingham, B18 4ED area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320F018002
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 457
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2022.
Slight
BMW X6 crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 16 May 2022
6 m awayRef 2022201262949
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 9 December 2020
9 m awayRef 2020201011516
Serious
MCW crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 1 April 1999
10 m awayRef 199920F080301
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 18 July 2013
10 m awayRef 201320W035983
Serious
Car crash on the A457 in Birmingham, 18 January 2025
10 m awayRef 2025201543557
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 29 April 2005
14 m awayRef 200520F117902
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Camry
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,832 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Camry)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 200320F018002 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.