Serious B4142 crash in Birmingham on 20 January 2015 at 19:17 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris hit a pedestrian on the B4142 in Birmingham at 19:17 on Tuesday 20 January 2015. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Jan 2015
- Tuesday, 19:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53125, longitude -1.84105, in the B23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Erdington, Birmingham, B23 5UR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201520N004585
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4142
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2018.
Slight
Car crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 26 May 2018
7 m awayRef 2018200305639
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 29 April 2020
7 m awayRef 2020200951390
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 28 June 2019
9 m awayRef 2019200881190
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 20 May 2017
9 m awayRef 2017200197191
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 14 October 2004
10 m awayRef 200420D358902
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 8 January 2008
10 m awayRef 200820D025702
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 201520N004585 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 2015.