Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B5 on 21 November 2014 at 18:45 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 18:45 on Friday 21 November 2014. An 81-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2014
- Friday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46485, longitude -1.89369, in the B5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham, B5 7HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201420T508574
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 1993.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 29 April 1993
28 m awayRef 19932093F0345
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 8 October 1981
28 m awayRef 19812000F1547
Slight
Bedford Midi crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 18 September 1992
28 m awayRef 19922092F0664
Slight
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 11 April 1998
28 m awayRef 199820E092501
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 21 October 1990
28 m awayRef 19902090F0906
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 26 September 1980
28 m awayRef 19802000F1497
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 81, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 201420T508574 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.