A456 crash in Birmingham on 25 September 2025 at 04:30 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A456 in Birmingham at 04:30 on Thursday 25 September 2025. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Sep 2025
- Thursday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47198, longitude -1.9483, in the B16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 3NB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201646154
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 456
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2014.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 7 May 2014
6 m awayRef 201420S024984
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 5 January 1998
6 m awayRef 199820F004901
Serious
Car crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 25 May 1988
11 m awayRef 19882000C0646
Slight
Foden crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 31 August 1994
11 m awayRef 19942094W2019
Serious
Van crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 31 January 1989
11 m awayRef 19892000C0137
Slight
MCW crash on the A456 in Birmingham, 4 October 1995
11 m awayRef 19952095F2019
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025201646154 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.