Unclassified road crash in Redditch on 2 December 1986 at 17:45 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 17:45 on Tuesday 2 December 1986. The 38-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 35-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 2 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 17:45
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 2; 2 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986220212002
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: Dark, no street lighting
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
38 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
East
Travelling to
West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
35 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Female, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1986220212002 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 1986.