A448 crash in Bromsgrove on 3 February 1998 at 09:15 involving a Volvo 460
A Volvo 460 crashed on the A448 in Bromsgrove at 09:15 on Tuesday 3 February 1998. The 29-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 1998
- Tuesday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo 460
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30679, longitude -1.98016, in the B97 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822BJ00239
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 448
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Dislodged vehicle load in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 September 2021.
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the B4096 in Redditch, 8 September 2021
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Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the B4184 in Redditch, 29 August 2004
20 m awayRef 200422DE39708
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A448 in Redditch, 23 January 2003
28 m awayRef 200322BE28861
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A448 in Redditch, 17 July 2009
30 m awayRef 200922D903929
Serious
Honda CBF 125 crash on the B4096 in Redditch, 24 February 2024
31 m awayRef 2024221417139
Slight
Car crash on the A448 in Redditch, 23 December 1980
32 m awayRef 1980220212028
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 460
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 460)
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 199822BJ00239 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.