Serious B4133 crash in Birmingham on 30 March 2017 at 16:48 involving a Ford Mondeo taxi
A Ford Mondeo taxi hit a pedestrian on the B4133 in Birmingham at 16:48 on Thursday 30 March 2017. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Mar 2017
- Thursday, 16:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48957, longitude -1.88377, in the B7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown, Birmingham, B6 4PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200173772
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4133
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2012.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the B4133 in Birmingham, 4 July 2012
4 m awayRef 201220W034572
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 14 October 2015
20 m awayRef 2015200032970
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the B4133 in Birmingham, 3 October 2016
30 m awayRef 2016200114428
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the B4133 in Birmingham, 30 June 2008
30 m awayRef 200820D183501
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 21 February 2002
30 m awayRef 200220D070401
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the B4133 in Birmingham, 17 October 2009
30 m awayRef 200920D258901
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2017200173772 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 2017.