Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B21 on 18 March 2023 at 20:23 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 20:23 on Saturday 18 March 2023. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2023
- Saturday, 20:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50279, longitude -1.92449, 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
- 2023201301512
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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, lighting unknown
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2020.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 15 December 2020
7 m awayRef 2020201021995
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 5 November 1990
42 m awayRef 19902090C1699
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 20 July 1997
42 m awayRef 19972097F1582
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 20 June 1987
42 m awayRef 19872000C0747
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 13 July 1984
42 m awayRef 19842000C1478
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 7 June 2025
45 m awayRef 2025201600009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not 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 2023201301512 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.