Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 14 January 1998 at 17:56 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 17:56 on Wednesday 14 January 1998. A 12-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 14 Jan 1998
- Wednesday, 17:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30686, longitude -1.94305, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822BX00090
- 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
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199822BX00090 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.