Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 21 January 1981 at 13:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 13:00 on Wednesday 21 January 1981. An 8-year-old female pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 1981
- Wednesday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30479, longitude -1.93293, 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
- 1981220201017
- 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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 February 1982.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 February 1982
22 m awayRef 1982220202016
Slight
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28 m awayRef 201022D003667
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 26 June 2007
32 m awayRef 200722DE86467
Slight
Mazda 5 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 April 2019
40 m awayRef 2019220835715
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 28 June 1979
41 m awayRef 1979220206045
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 24 July 2021
42 m awayRef 2021221071860
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1981220201017 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 1981.