Serious B4148 crash in Birmingham on 18 September 2020 at 12:00 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class hit a pedestrian on the B4148 in Birmingham at 12:00 on Friday 18 September 2020. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Sep 2020
- Friday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54772, longitude -1.79799, in the B76 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Sutton Coldfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton Walmley & Minworth, Birmingham, B76 1QU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020200985674
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4148
- 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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 2021.
Slight
Volvo crash on the B4148 in Birmingham, 29 September 2021
9 m awayRef 2021201134384
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 24 July 2007
17 m awayRef 200720D207602
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B4148 in Birmingham, 1 July 2017
21 m awayRef 2017200206852
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4148 in Birmingham, 15 December 2000
37 m awayRef 200020D406402
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B4148 in Birmingham, 8 June 2017
42 m awayRef 2017200201217
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4148 in Birmingham, 25 July 2015
43 m awayRef 201520N045315
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020200985674 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.