Serious B4531 crash in Birmingham on 15 August 2025 at 13:01 involving a Toyota C-HR
A Toyota C-HR hit a pedestrian on the B4531 in Birmingham at 13:01 on Friday 15 August 2025. A 42-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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Aug 2025
- Friday, 13:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota C-HR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52813, longitude -1.8414, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201629876
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4531
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4142
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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2005.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 10 February 2005
4 m awayRef 200520D077702
Slight
Car crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 19 November 2003
4 m awayRef 200320D404402
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 26 January 2008
8 m awayRef 200820D038902
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 10 March 2014
8 m awayRef 201420N015184
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4531 in Birmingham, 28 September 2005
8 m awayRef 200520D541702
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4142 in Birmingham, 18 February 2009
10 m awayRef 200920D063102
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota C-HR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota C-HR)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2025201629876 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.