A4040 crash in Birmingham on 4 October 2007 at 16:10 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane hit a pedestrian on the A4040 in Birmingham at 16:10 on Thursday 4 October 2007. A female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 2007
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4312, longitude -1.87627, in the B13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Billesley, Birmingham, B13 0TW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720E182302
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4040
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 1999.
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 31 July 1999
10 m awayRef 199920E185101
Slight
Volvo crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 24 May 2011
14 m awayRef 201120T026841
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 12 September 2010
22 m awayRef 201020T035060
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 25 February 2004
22 m awayRef 200420E042502
Serious
Colt Galant crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 22 September 1994
22 m awayRef 19942094S2184
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 30 May 2012
22 m awayRef 201220S027472
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200720E182302 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.