B4497 crash in Redditch on 12 October 2002 at 08:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the B4497 in Redditch at 08:30 on Saturday 12 October 2002. The 22-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2002
- Saturday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29727, longitude -1.90289, in the B98 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200222BB27416
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 March 1988.
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 22 March 1988
At the same spotRef 1988220203031
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 21 August 1989
10 m awayRef 1989220208026
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 14 December 1990
20 m awayRef 1990220212027
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 18 November 2014
22 m awayRef 201422D404359
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 2 July 2000
41 m awayRef 200022BB14557
Slight
Toyota Landcruiser crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 October 2002
51 m awayRef 200222BB27607
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200222BB27416 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 2002.