A4540 crash in Birmingham on 26 May 2022 at 11:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4540 in Birmingham at 11:30 on Thursday 26 May 2022. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 2022
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45878, longitude -1.87254, in the B12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East, Birmingham, B11 4AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022201190527
- 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
- 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
- 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 18 April 2005.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 18 April 2005
4 m awayRef 200520E072803
Slight
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 24 June 2012
4 m awayRef 201220T032162
Slight
Car crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 28 February 2024
6 m awayRef 2024201416865
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 17 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025201617580
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B4167 in Birmingham, 11 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200020E076001
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the B4167 in Birmingham, 13 February 1998
13 m awayRef 199820E046701
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- 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 2022201190527 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 2022.