A4040 crash in Birmingham on 16 February 2023 at 08:20 involving a Chevrolet Matiz
A Chevrolet Matiz hit a pedestrian on the A4040 in Birmingham at 08:20 on Thursday 16 February 2023. A 13-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
- 16 Feb 2023
- Thursday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Chevrolet Matiz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51307, longitude -1.92151, in the B20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, B20 2DU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023201284544
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4040
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4040
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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2019.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 25 July 2019
1 m awayRef 2019200873470
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 11 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025201653411
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 20 June 1999
4 m awayRef 199920F151401
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 7 March 2008
4 m awayRef 200820F058603
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 9 May 1998
4 m awayRef 199820F103101
Slight
Volvo C70 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 20 November 2008
4 m awayRef 200820F227203
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Chevrolet Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Chevrolet Matiz)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 2023201284544 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 2023.