A4040 crash in Birmingham on 23 February 2008 at 16:10 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus hit two pedestrians on the A4040 in Birmingham at 16:10 on Saturday 23 February 2008. A 71-year-old male pedestrian and a 61-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2008
- Saturday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48722, longitude -1.81161, in the B33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Yardley East, Birmingham, B33 8BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820D063703
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4040
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 25 November 2014
At the same spotRef 201420T509574
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Fiat Punto crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 10 September 2019
4 m awayRef 2019200888445
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Audi TT crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 9 November 2018
5 m awayRef 2018200351913
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Toyota Aygo crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 9 February 2024
7 m awayRef 2024201435513
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 2 November 2000
10 m awayRef 200020D350001
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 24 May 2000
10 m awayRef 200020D162803
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 200820D063703 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.