B4531 crash in Birmingham on 6 September 2006 at 18:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on the B4531 in Birmingham at 18:30 on Wednesday 6 September 2006. A 70-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2006
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52808, longitude -1.84107, in the B23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Erdington, Birmingham, B23 6TG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200620D250302
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4531
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2006.
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 16 November 2006
10 m awayRef 200620D331702
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 10 February 2005
20 m awayRef 200520D077702
Slight
Car crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 19 November 2003
20 m awayRef 200320D404402
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 23 September 2022
22 m awayRef 2022201237158
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 26 January 2008
22 m awayRef 200820D038902
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 28 September 2005
22 m awayRef 200520D541702
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- 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 200620D250302 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 2006.