Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 1 February 1981 at 14:53 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 14:53 on Sunday 1 February 1981. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 1981
- Sunday, 14:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31234, longitude -1.92955, 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
- 1981220202008
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 1993.
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Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 28 January 1993
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Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 28 December 1998
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 October 1991
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 18 February 1981
58 m awayRef 1981220202031
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 January 2017
62 m awayRef 2017220151705
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Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 11 October 2002
72 m awayRef 200222BA27447
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, 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 1981220202008 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.