Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 2 April 2000 at 00:25 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Nova were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 00:25 on Sunday 2 April 2000. The 29-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Nova and a 23-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Nova were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 2000
- Sunday, 00:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29128, longitude -1.94425, 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
- 200022BA13035
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 2009.
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Ford Focus crash on the A448 in Redditch, 29 September 2009
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Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 29 June 2001
At the same spotRef 200122BC20511
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 October 2012
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Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 26 February 2000
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Volkswagen Tiguan crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 20 May 2019
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Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 April 2021
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Nova)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Nova)
- 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 200022BA13035 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 2000.