B4120 crash in Bromsgrove on 15 March 1998 at 19:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B4120 in Bromsgrove at 19:10 on Sunday 15 March 1998. A 16-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 1998
- Sunday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36252, longitude -1.98395, in the B45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnt Green.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822BP00658
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 24 May 1997
14 m awayRef 199722BC01659
Serious
Car crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 2 September 1979
22 m awayRef 1979220209042
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 11 October 1997
40 m awayRef 199722BL03461
Slight
Car crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 26 November 1981
40 m awayRef 1981220211062
Slight
Car crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 15 April 1983
50 m awayRef 1983220204026
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 31 January 2019
53 m awayRef 2019220812728
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 199822BP00658 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.