Serious A441 crash in Redditch on 27 November 1999 at 00:20 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the A441 in Redditch at 00:20 on Saturday 27 November 1999. A 21-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Nov 1999
- Saturday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29927, longitude -1.9331, in the B98 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199922BC10668
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 441
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 October 1981.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 October 1981
42 m awayRef 1981220210006
Fatal
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 31 May 1998
45 m awayRef 199822BU01467
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 3 February 1980
45 m awayRef 1980220202007
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 11 May 1982
50 m awayRef 1982220205003
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 August 1992
54 m awayRef 1992220308001
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 27 August 1984
54 m awayRef 1984220208068
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- 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 199922BC10668 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 1999.