Serious unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 17 March 2000 at 19:55 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Nissan Bluebird were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 19:55 on Friday 17 March 2000. The 32-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Mar 2000
- Friday, 19:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Nissan Bluebird
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30177, longitude -1.90244, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200022BB12670
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 May 2016.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 27 May 2016
4 m awayRef 2016220088461
Serious
Car crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 11 April 1983
10 m awayRef 1983220204006
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 18 September 1997
10 m awayRef 199722BB03153
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 21 May 1989
10 m awayRef 1989220205029
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 10 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199722BB04234
Serious
Car crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 9 November 1982
14 m awayRef 1982220211007
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200022BB12670 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.