B4497 crash in Redditch on 17 July 1997 at 08:15 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309, a Peugeot 205 and a Ford Transit minibus were involved in a crash on the B4497 in Redditch at 08:15 on Thursday 17 July 1997. A 36-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 205 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 1997
- Thursday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 309 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30198, longitude -1.90243, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199722BD02350
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4497
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 1998.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 3 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199822BF00972
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 6 December 1990
At the same spotRef 1990220212004
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 21 July 1994
At the same spotRef 199422BD05846
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 5 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199522BA08097
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 21 May 1989
10 m awayRef 1989220205029
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 2 July 1979
10 m awayRef 1979220207001
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Transit
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 205)
- 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 199722BD02350 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 1997.