A441 crash in Redditch on 30 July 2005 at 22:50 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A441 in Redditch at 22:50 on Saturday 30 July 2005. The 19-year-old male driver of the Rover 400 Series 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
- 30 Jul 2005
- Saturday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 400 Series and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27221, longitude -1.93959, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200522DG46209
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 441
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2007.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A441 in Redditch, 21 March 2007
32 m awayRef 200722DE85908
Slight
Car crash on the A441 in Redditch, 1 November 1984
32 m awayRef 1984220211004
Slight
Bus crash on the A441 in Redditch, 22 July 2010
41 m awayRef 201022D003651
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A441 in Redditch, 21 June 1997
41 m awayRef 199722BE02029
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A441 in Redditch, 11 September 1990
95 m awayRef 1990220209009
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A441 in Redditch, 7 October 1997
141 m awayRef 199722BJ03413
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
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 200522DG46209 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 2005.