A491 crash in Bromsgrove on 13 December 1998 at 16:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A491 in Bromsgrove at 16:20 on Sunday 13 December 1998. The 51-year-old male driver and a 28-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 1998
- Sunday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38309, longitude -2.07826, in the DY9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromsgrove
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822AV05792
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 491
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4091
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2006.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A491 in Bromsgrove, 7 September 2006
14 m awayRef 200622DE53331
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4091 in Bromsgrove, 6 March 1997
22 m awayRef 199722BP00681
Serious
Scania crash on the A491 in Bromsgrove, 13 April 1994
22 m awayRef 199422RM03370
Slight
Jaguar XF Series crash on the B4091 in Bromsgrove, 12 December 2016
24 m awayRef 2016220138775
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A491 in Bromsgrove, 2 January 1980
28 m awayRef 1980220201002
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A491 in Bromsgrove, 18 July 1991
28 m awayRef 1991220207031
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 199822AV05792 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromsgrove road accident statistics for 1998.