Unclassified road crash in Bromsgrove B98 on 23 August 1981 at 20:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bromsgrove at 20:10 on Sunday 23 August 1981. The 48-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 1981
- Sunday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29868, longitude -1.93485, in the B98 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981220208046
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- 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
- Dry
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 1997.
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
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Slight
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 June 1979
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 December 1980
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 1981220208046 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromsgrove road accident statistics for 1981.