Serious A4540 crash in Birmingham on 1 January 2020 at 14:46 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on the A4540 in Birmingham at 14:46 on Wednesday 1 January 2020. A 53-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jan 2020
- Wednesday, 14:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47367, longitude -1.87523, in the B9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley Green, Birmingham, B10 0BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020200918032
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 January 2005.
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 11 January 2005
2 m awayRef 200520F013401
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 26 September 2002
2 m awayRef 200220D343003
Slight
BMW Z4 crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 31 August 2025
4 m awayRef 2025201636901
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 11 April 2021
4 m awayRef 2021201077731
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 5 December 2024
4 m awayRef 2024201526171
Serious
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 23 March 2021
5 m awayRef 2021201071132
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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 2020200918032 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 2020.