A4540 crash in Birmingham on 2 March 2007 at 22:10 involving a Nissan Primera
A Nissan Primera hit a pedestrian on the A4540 in Birmingham at 22:10 on Friday 2 March 2007. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2007
- Friday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Primera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49244, longitude -1.89098, in the B6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown, Birmingham, B19 3SN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720D074801
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 April 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 10 April 1989
10 m awayRef 19892000D0595
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 11 January 1987
10 m awayRef 19872000F0028
Slight
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 26 March 1988
10 m awayRef 19882000D0493
Serious
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 23 February 1985
10 m awayRef 19852000D0543
Slight
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 28 September 1989
10 m awayRef 19892000F0772
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 14 August 1993
10 m awayRef 19932093D1085
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Primera)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 200720D074801 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 2007.