A4040 crash in Birmingham on 7 April 2023 at 14:40 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series hit a pedestrian on the A4040 in Birmingham at 14:40 on Friday 7 April 2023. A 39-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
- 7 Apr 2023
- Friday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51324, longitude -1.92609, 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
- 2023201306642
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 December 2023.
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 19 December 2023
3 m awayRef 2023201423144
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 20 September 2001
4 m awayRef 200120F306501
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 3 January 2007
8 m awayRef 200720F009103
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 20 October 1998
8 m awayRef 199820F216801
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 2 October 2016
10 m awayRef 2016200116483
Slight
Car crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 25 June 1987
13 m awayRef 19872000C0773
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2023201306642 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.