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Serious unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 21 March 1985 at 02:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 02:10 on Thursday 21 March 1985. A 39-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with unlit street lights in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Mar 1985
Thursday, 02:10
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30786, longitude -1.96402, 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
1985220203046
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
Dark, street lights unlit
Weather
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 2014.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    First point of impact
    Front

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge

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 1985220203046 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.