Serious B4531 crash in Birmingham on 6 May 2018 at 19:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B4531 in Birmingham at 19:00 on Sunday 6 May 2018. A male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 May 2018
- Sunday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52803, longitude -1.84366, 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 6TG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200299134
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4531
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 27 May 2011
3 m awayRef 201120N046611
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 4 March 2006
7 m awayRef 200620D083302
Slight
Kia Cerato crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 18 February 2010
7 m awayRef 201020D055112
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 29 June 2018
8 m awayRef 2018200320143
Serious
MG ZS crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 23 September 2025
11 m awayRef 2025201645623
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 11 November 2002
12 m awayRef 200220D405902
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2018200299134 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.