Serious B4142 crash in Birmingham on 15 February 2008 at 09:55 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series hit a pedestrian on the B4142 in Birmingham at 09:55 on Friday 15 February 2008. A 33-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Feb 2008
- Friday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52961, longitude -1.8415, in the B23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Erdington, Birmingham, B23 6TG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820D050602
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4142
- Road type
- Single 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 15 July 2013
10 m awayRef 201320N036133
Slight
BMW M5 crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 7 June 2019
27 m awayRef 2019200854479
Slight
Minibus crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 16 February 1981
58 m awayRef 19812000D0421
Slight
Bedford crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 13 November 1994
58 m awayRef 19942094N2979
Slight
Suzuki Supercarry crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 8 August 1990
58 m awayRef 19902000D1452
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 12 October 1993
58 m awayRef 19932093D1337
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, 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 200820D050602 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 2008.