Serious unclassified road crash in Birmingham B18 on 12 August 2025 at 11:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 11:45 on Tuesday 12 August 2025. A 26-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Aug 2025
- Tuesday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50001, longitude -1.933, in the B18 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201628016
- 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
- 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
- Less 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, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2012.
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 18 December 2012
21 m awayRef 201220W058582
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 12 January 2018
27 m awayRef 2018200263326
Slight
Nissan Serena crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 9 October 2003
29 m awayRef 200320F268203
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 22 April 2011
29 m awayRef 201120W021401
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 11 February 2008
29 m awayRef 200820F040803
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 13 May 2008
29 m awayRef 200820F104803
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2025201628016 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.