Unclassified road crash in Redditch on 16 December 1986 at 04:40 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 04:40 on Tuesday 16 December 1986. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 16 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 04:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986220212016
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: Other
Road surface: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South West
Travelling to
North East
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Hit object in carriageway
Kerb
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
Hit object off carriageway
Tree
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
37 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 37, 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 1986220212016 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.