Serious B4138 crash in Birmingham on 7 May 2007 at 01:12 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B4138 in Birmingham at 01:12 on Monday 7 May 2007. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 May 2007
- Monday, 01:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53559, longitude -1.88895, in the B44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720D139802
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4138
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2007.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 20 July 2007
10 m awayRef 200720D207202
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4138 in Birmingham, 3 August 1998
10 m awayRef 199820D209701
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B4138 in Birmingham, 15 February 2010
10 m awayRef 201020D057312
Slight
Car crash on the B4138 in Birmingham, 2 June 2010
14 m awayRef 201020W014870
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the B4138 in Birmingham, 28 February 2023
24 m awayRef 2023201289544
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the B4138 in Birmingham, 25 July 2025
27 m awayRef 2025201620823
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag exit lines
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200720D139802 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.