Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 22 February 2004 at 01:00 involving a Toyota Carina taxi
A Toyota Carina taxi and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 01:00 on Sunday 22 February 2004. The 50-year-old male driver of the Toyota Carina taxi was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 2004
- Sunday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Carina and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29794, longitude -1.96316, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Batchley & Brockhill, Redditch, B97 4SJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200422DG36582
- 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
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 2002.
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Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 20 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200222BD24177
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 17 November 2002
10 m awayRef 200222BD27967
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Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 19 September 1997
10 m awayRef 199722BU03146
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Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 2 May 2005
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18 m awayRef 2018220333210
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 October 1983
22 m awayRef 1983220210007
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
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 200422DG36582 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.