Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 20 May 1985 at 08:12 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 08:12 on Monday 20 May 1985. A 24-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 1985
- Monday, 08:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29284, longitude -1.94776, 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
- 1985220205034
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 August 2001.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 25 August 2001
14 m awayRef 200122BD21239
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 5 June 2011
14 m awayRef 201122D102308
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 August 1998
20 m awayRef 199822BM02496
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 20 December 1994
20 m awayRef 199422BB10421
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 July 1985
22 m awayRef 1985220207016
Slight
Renault 20 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 24 January 1990
22 m awayRef 1990220201062
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 1985220205034 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.