Serious A4540 crash in Birmingham on 31 August 2018 at 22:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4540 in Birmingham at 22:15 on Friday 31 August 2018. A 52-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Aug 2018
- Friday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46747, longitude -1.9023, in the B15 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
- 2018200328896
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 1999.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 28 October 1999
15 m awayRef 199920F265501
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 22 August 1998
15 m awayRef 199820F173901
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 24 November 1998
15 m awayRef 199820F252201
Slight
Iveco crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 24 May 2016
15 m awayRef 2016200075205
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 5 January 2001
21 m awayRef 200120F068001
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 4 February 2008
21 m awayRef 200820F024701
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
- 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 2018200328896 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.