Serious A38 crash in Birmingham on 18 September 2016 at 02:30 involving a Toyota Celica
A Toyota Celica hit a pedestrian on the A38 in Birmingham at 02:30 on Sunday 18 September 2016. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Sep 2016
- Sunday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Celica
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46967, longitude -1.90007, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200118220
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 2025.
Slight
BMW i4 crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 26 July 2025
1 m awayRef 2025201621199
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 6 February 2003
6 m awayRef 200320F039201
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 22 October 2008
6 m awayRef 200820F203001
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 20 December 2013
8 m awayRef 201320W500793
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 8 August 2025
9 m awayRef 2025201627291
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A38 in Birmingham, 13 August 1999
15 m awayRef 199920F195801
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Celica
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Celica)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016200118220 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 2016.