B4531 crash in Birmingham on 1 January 2025 at 12:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B4531 in Birmingham at 12:15 on Wednesday 1 January 2025. A 54-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2025
- Wednesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52733, longitude -1.85357, in the B23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Erdington, Birmingham, B23 6TG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201537889
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4531
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Raining, 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 2023.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 14 June 2023
4 m awayRef 2023201370918
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 2 November 2021
5 m awayRef 2021201142044
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 26 October 2024
6 m awayRef 2024201508776
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 6 December 2019
8 m awayRef 2019200919136
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 17 September 2004
8 m awayRef 200420D316902
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 8 June 2022
8 m awayRef 2022201188296
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025201537889 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 2025.