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Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 4 December 1998 at 15:31 involving a Volkswagen Polo

A Volkswagen Polo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 15:31 on Friday 4 December 1998. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
4 Dec 1998
Friday, 15:31
Vehicles
1
Volkswagen Polo
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29894, longitude -1.92429, 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
199822BU03468
Council area
Redditch
Police force
West Mercia
Highway authority
Worcestershire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2004.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    40 years
    Engine capacity
    1,390 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 199822BU03468 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 1998.