Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B38 on 21 January 2022 at 22:14 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Seat Leon were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 22:14 on Friday 21 January 2022. A 37-year-old female pedestrian hit by the BMW 5 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2022
- Friday, 22:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39232, longitude -1.93414, in the B38 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022201216424
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 96 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 February 1992.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 3 February 1992
96 m awayRef 19922092B5045
Slight
Fiat crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 9 August 1992
96 m awayRef 19922092B1072
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 2 February 1991
96 m awayRef 19912091B5042
Slight
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 1 June 1990
96 m awayRef 19902000B0909
Serious
Mini Countryman crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 17 September 2025
128 m awayRef 2025201643104
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 24 December 2002
130 m awayRef 200220E504502
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
- 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 2022201216424 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.