Serious A4540 crash in Birmingham on 20 May 2015 at 20:00 involving a Saab 9-3
A Saab 9-3 hit a pedestrian on the A4540 in Birmingham at 20:00 on Wednesday 20 May 2015. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 May 2015
- Wednesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49392, longitude -1.90834, in the B19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Soho & Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, B3 1TH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201520W028375
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2018.
Slight
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 27 October 2018
2 m awayRef 2018200345820
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 9 October 2022
5 m awayRef 2022201236328
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 26 May 2003
10 m awayRef 200320F139301
Slight
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 13 March 2006
10 m awayRef 200620F060903
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 24 August 1998
10 m awayRef 199820F181301
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 24 August 2000
10 m awayRef 200020F210001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Saab 9-3)
- 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 201520W028375 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.