Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 1 May 1979 at 15:20 involving a car
A car and a minibus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 15:20 on Tuesday 1 May 1979. The 61-year-old male driver of the car and a 55-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 1979
- Tuesday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and minibus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30281, longitude -1.93763, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979220205002
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 1999.
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 14 September 1999
At the same spotRef 199922BF02329
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 4 May 1990
14 m awayRef 1990220205014
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 8 August 2000
14 m awayRef 200022BA15427
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 14 May 1979
22 m awayRef 1979220205049
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 31 October 1986
28 m awayRef 1986220210032
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 5 October 2001
40 m awayRef 200122BA21991
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1979220205002 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.