Serious unclassified road crash in Birmingham B42 on 18 November 2006 at 15:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 15:50 on Saturday 18 November 2006. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Nov 2006
- Saturday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53481, longitude -1.91844, in the B42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Perry Barr, Birmingham, B42 1LN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200620F250703
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 34
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2002.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200620F250703 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.