A4400 crash in Birmingham on 23 April 2008 at 10:00 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
A Volkswagen Sharan hit a pedestrian on the A4400 in Birmingham at 10:00 on Wednesday 23 April 2008. A 31-year-old male 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
- 23 Apr 2008
- Wednesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Sharan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48606, longitude -1.89467, in the B4 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
- 200820F081101
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4400
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 August 2012.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 26 August 2012
14 m awayRef 201220W040352
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 16 May 2002
22 m awayRef 200220F163801
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 22 August 2004
22 m awayRef 200420F215001
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Serious
MAN crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 25 April 2023
26 m awayRef 2023201305572
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4400 in Birmingham, 29 October 2004
30 m awayRef 200420F547701
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Sharan)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 200820F081101 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.