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Serious B4184 crash in Redditch on 30 August 1983 at 16:50 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B4184 in Redditch at 16:50 on Tuesday 30 August 1983. An 8-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
Serious
Date
30 Aug 1983
Tuesday, 16:50
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31181, longitude -1.9517, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983220208027
Council area
Redditch
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
4184
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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    31 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 1983220208027 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 1983.