B4497 crash in Redditch on 14 August 2001 at 15:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on the B4497 in Redditch at 15:00 on Tuesday 14 August 2001. The 81-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2001
- Tuesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31383, longitude -1.91577, in the B98 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the North, Redditch, B98 9LE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200122BB21081
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4497
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2011.
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 17 April 2011
22 m awayRef 201122D101616
Serious
Kia Picanto crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 12 April 2015
22 m awayRef 201522D501371
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 24 September 2011
22 m awayRef 201122D103987
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 13 June 1987
36 m awayRef 1987220206045
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 19 June 1988
41 m awayRef 1988220206032
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 January 1990
45 m awayRef 1990220201058
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
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 200122BB21081 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 2001.