Serious unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 1 January 1979 at 15:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 15:00 on Monday 1 January 1979. The 35-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jan 1979
- Monday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28509, longitude -1.91904, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979220201011
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 June 1993.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 26 June 1993
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Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 April 1995
20 m awayRef 199522BR02293
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 11 April 2016
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 12 May 1994
36 m awayRef 199422BN03900
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 7 August 2016
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Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 September 2005
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1979220201011 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redditch road accident statistics for 1979.