Serious A4540 crash in Birmingham on 27 October 2008 at 21:25 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on the A4540 in Birmingham at 21:25 on Monday 27 October 2008. A female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Oct 2008
- Monday, 21:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47395, longitude -1.92047, in the B16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ladywood, Birmingham, B15 1BF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820F206502
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 2013.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 13 June 2013
At the same spotRef 201320W028583
Slight
Mercedes B Class crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 12 July 2014
At the same spotRef 201420W037104
Serious
BMW X5 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 5 October 2010
At the same spotRef 201020W039160
Slight
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 25 April 2007
At the same spotRef 200720F094402
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 25 July 2009
At the same spotRef 200920F138302
Serious
MG Metro crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 29 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199820F024901
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 200820F206502 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.