Unclassified road crash in Redditch on 4 December 1986 at 22:45 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 22:45 on Thursday 4 December 1986. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 4 Dec 1986; Thursday, 22:45
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986220212014
Council area: Redditch
Police force: West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 40 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Dry
Carriageway hazards: Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
Hit object off carriageway
Lamp post
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
26 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 26, 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 1986220212014 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.