Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 22 January 2004 at 18:15 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Vauxhall Frontera were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 18:15 on Thursday 22 January 2004. The 43-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Frontera, a 39-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Frontera and a 15-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Frontera were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2004
- Thursday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Vauxhall Frontera
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28829, longitude -1.91508, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200422DJ35616
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 1991.
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 25 October 1991
At the same spotRef 1991220310045
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 30 August 1986
At the same spotRef 1986220208044
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 22 February 2012
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Fatal
Honda XR crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 5 May 2025
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Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 23 August 2007
10 m awayRef 200722DE86801
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 23 May 2007
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,260 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Frontera)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Frontera)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Frontera)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200422DJ35616 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.