Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 30 April 2003 at 08:40 involving a DAF Trucks FA 45LF lorry
A van, a DAF Trucks FA 45LF lorry and a Suzuki Baleno were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 08:40 on Wednesday 30 April 2003. The 44-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Baleno was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Apr 2003
- Wednesday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- DAF Trucks FA 45LF and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28442, longitude -1.90791, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Matchborough & Woodrow, Redditch, B98 7UG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322DJ30573
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Other 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 6 May 2003
10 m awayRef 200322DJ30576
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 December 2011
10 m awayRef 201122D105341
Serious
Rover Sterling crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 25 July 1991
10 m awayRef 1991220307026
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 September 1999
14 m awayRef 199922BR02385
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 17 July 1989
20 m awayRef 1989220207035
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 January 1996
28 m awayRef 199622BQ00015
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks FA 45LF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 3: Suzuki Baleno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Suzuki Baleno)
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 200322DJ30573 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 2003.