A435 crash in Birmingham on 31 December 2025 at 17:41 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on the A435 in Birmingham at 17:41 on Wednesday 31 December 2025. A 33-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 17:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45741, longitude -1.88556, in the B12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Moseley, Birmingham, B13 8AL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201689873
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 435
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 2025.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 14 October 2025
1 m awayRef 2025201655208
Slight
Volkswagen T-Roc crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 7 March 2025
2 m awayRef 2025201563597
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 17 August 2012
3 m awayRef 201220T039112
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 1 March 1999
3 m awayRef 199920E059101
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 4 August 2010
3 m awayRef 201020T027150
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A435 in Birmingham, 3 September 2006
3 m awayRef 200620E127803
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025201689873 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.