A41 crash in Birmingham on 8 October 2022 at 16:40 involving a Lexmoto Venom 125 motorcycle
A Lexmoto Venom 125 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A41 in Birmingham at 16:40 on Saturday 8 October 2022. A 68-year-old male 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
- 8 Oct 2022
- Saturday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexmoto Venom 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50245, longitude -1.93001, in the B21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Soho & Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, B21 9SU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022201235579
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 2008.
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 29 May 2008
6 m awayRef 200820F107503
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 23 April 2002
6 m awayRef 200220F121103
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 26 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025201659403
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 5 October 2023
7 m awayRef 2023201409895
Serious
Van crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 16 June 2024
8 m awayRef 2024201456278
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A41 in Birmingham, 28 December 2006
9 m awayRef 200620F508803
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Venom 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 68, hit by vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Venom 125)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2022201235579 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.