Serious A4040 crash in Birmingham on 31 July 2024 at 10:55 involving an MG ZS
An MG ZS hit a pedestrian on the A4040 in Birmingham at 10:55 on Wednesday 31 July 2024. An 80-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jul 2024
- Wednesday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG ZS
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4593, longitude -1.96057, in the B17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harborne, Birmingham, B17 9RS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024201474308
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 28 June 2013
8 m awayRef 201320S031873
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 14 January 2004
8 m awayRef 200420F016402
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 28 March 2023
18 m awayRef 2023201296503
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 30 July 2006
22 m awayRef 200620F165702
Fatal
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 15 January 2024
41 m awayRef 2024201399955
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4040 in Birmingham, 28 July 1998
64 m awayRef 199820F161601
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG ZS
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (MG ZS)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024201474308 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 2024.