A4040 crash in Birmingham on 14 March 2018 at 08:33 involving a Mercedes S Class
A Mercedes S Class hit a pedestrian on the A4040 in Birmingham at 08:33 on Wednesday 14 March 2018. A 39-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 2018
- Wednesday, 08:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes S Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42912, longitude -1.84239, in the B28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hall Green North, Birmingham, B28 9ES area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200312007
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4040
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 34
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
- 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 slight injury crash on 21 September 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 21 September 2006
4 m awayRef 200620E153802
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 14 March 2008
8 m awayRef 200820E052302
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 19 December 1999
8 m awayRef 199920E322401
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 20 September 2018
8 m awayRef 2018200349587
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 9 November 2017
9 m awayRef 2017200242451
Serious
BMW M3 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 2 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025201610862
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes S Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 23 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes S Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2018200312007 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.