Serious unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 21 December 1980 at 14:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 14:15 on Sunday 21 December 1980. A 54-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 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
- 21 Dec 1980
- Sunday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29895, longitude -1.93455, in the B98 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980220212026
- 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 slight injury crash on 26 January 2005.
Slight
Nissan 200 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 26 January 2005
10 m awayRef 200522DJ42837
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 June 1979
10 m awayRef 1979220206028
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 29 September 2004
22 m awayRef 200422DE40280
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 2 August 2008
22 m awayRef 200822DE88804
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 12 October 2009
30 m awayRef 200922D905938
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 12 July 1985
32 m awayRef 1985220207037
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1980220212026 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 1980.