Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 31 January 2004 at 00:10 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 00:10 on Saturday 31 January 2004. A 41-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2004
- Saturday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29911, longitude -1.97328, 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
- 200422DG35863
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 74 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2019.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 August 2019
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 October 2019
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 29 April 2001
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Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 23 March 1979
133 m awayRef 1979220203025
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 17 January 2001
141 m awayRef 200122BD18167
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 2 June 2019
149 m awayRef 2019220874630
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200422DG35863 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 2004.