Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 31 August 1983 at 10:00 involving a car
A car and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 10:00 on Wednesday 31 August 1983. A 52-year-old female passenger in the bus or coach 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
- 31 Aug 1983
- Wednesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3074, longitude -1.941, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983220208028
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 March 1995.
Serious
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Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 September 2000
14 m awayRef 200022BA16056
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Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 13 June 2008
20 m awayRef 200822DE88542
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 11 March 1994
22 m awayRef 1994220303011
Slight
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 4 December 2004
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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
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 52, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 1983220208028 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.