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Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 22 January 1985 at 10:23 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 10:23 on Tuesday 22 January 1985. The 38-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
22 Jan 1985
Tuesday, 10:23
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28035, longitude -1.97562, 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
1985220201016
Council area
Redditch
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bridge (side)
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1985220201016 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 1985.