A4540 crash in Birmingham on 8 January 2018 at 17:40 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class hit a pedestrian on the A4540 in Birmingham at 17:40 on Monday 8 January 2018. A 50-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 2018
- Monday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45895, longitude -1.87349, in the B12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East, Birmingham, B11 4AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200257866
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 October 1999.
Serious
Toyota Carina crash on the B4167 in Birmingham, 12 October 1999
4 m awayRef 199920E279501
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B4167 in Birmingham, 14 May 2003
4 m awayRef 200320E101903
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 12 May 2010
4 m awayRef 201020W009870
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 9 May 2022
6 m awayRef 2022201181594
Slight
Daihatsu Sirion crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 13 May 2023
6 m awayRef 2023201316842
Slight
Car crash on the A4167 in Birmingham, 19 March 2021
7 m awayRef 2021201070486
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018200257866 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 2018.