Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B35 on 1 August 2014 at 18:32 involving a Volkswagen Sharan taxi
A Volkswagen Sharan taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 18:32 on Friday 1 August 2014. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2014
- Friday, 18:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Sharan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51613, longitude -1.78762, in the B35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle Vale, Birmingham, B35 7JA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201420N042154
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 slight injury crash on 21 October 2002.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 21 October 2002
14 m awayRef 200220D388302
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 28 July 2012
36 m awayRef 201220N045342
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 5 July 2007
36 m awayRef 200720D198402
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 30 August 1985
41 m awayRef 19852000D2386
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 6 April 1992
41 m awayRef 19922092D0415
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 8 July 1985
41 m awayRef 19852000D1792
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Sharan)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201420N042154 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 2014.