West Midlands Police is appealing for dashcam footage and witnesses after a pedestrian died at the scene in Alum Rock in the early hours of Saturday
A man in his 30s has died after being hit by a car on Sladefield Road, in Alum Rock, east Birmingham, and the driver did not stop. Emergency services were called just after 12.15am on Saturday 31 October after reports that a man had been seriously injured. He was pronounced dead at the scene. West Midlands Police’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit is leading the inquiry, and no arrest has been announced.
What police are asking for
The man was a pedestrian, according to BBC News. Police have not publicly described the vehicle, giving no make, model, colour or registration. They have also not named the victim or given his exact age.
The force issued its first appeal at about 11am on Saturday. A spokesperson said: “A thorough investigation is underway by our Serious Collision Investigation Unit who are appealing for anyone who was in the area at the time, has any dashcam or mobile phone footage to get in touch.”
Anyone with information can call 101 or use the Live Chat service on the force’s website, quoting incident number 64 of 31 October.
The national picture
The Department for Transport (DfT) recorded 1,538 road deaths in Great Britain in 2025, 4% fewer than in 2024, and 28,380 serious injuries. Its figures show 108 hit-and-run fatalities, and 94 deaths involved a vehicle that failed to stop, 56 of them pedestrians. Men accounted for 77% of all road deaths. These are national figures, and they do not say anything about the cause of the Sladefield Road collision.
Police in the West Midlands have appealed over other fatal hit-and-run collisions in recent months. Those cases are unrelated, and there is no evidence connecting them to Saturday’s collision.
