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Fatal unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 16 September 1979 at 16:30 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 16:30 on Sunday 16 September 1979. An 80-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was killed and the 80-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Fatal
Date
16 Sep 1979
Sunday, 16:30
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
2
1 killed, 1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3099, longitude -1.90491, in the B98 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Redditch

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979220209016
Council area
Redditch
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 2021.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    80 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    27 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Fatal

    Male, aged 80, 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 1979220209016 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.