Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B17 on 26 October 2006 at 22:15 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 22:15 on Thursday 26 October 2006. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2006
- Thursday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44942, longitude -1.94553, in the B17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2SX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200620F229502
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B4129 in Birmingham, 4 February 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000C0130
Serious
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the B4129 in Birmingham, 16 April 1993
At the same spotRef 19932093C0607
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 30 April 1992
At the same spotRef 19922092B0528
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 27 July 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000C0952
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B4129 in Birmingham, 15 August 1994
At the same spotRef 19942094W1923
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4129 in Birmingham, 15 September 2003
10 m awayRef 200320E181501
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- 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 200620F229502 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.