Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 17 December 2007 at 23:20 involving an MG ZR
An MG ZR crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 23:20 on Monday 17 December 2007. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2007
- Monday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG ZR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31526, longitude -1.90432, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the North, Redditch, B98 9LE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722DE87512
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 March 1979.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 March 1979
10 m awayRef 1979220203009
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 30 April 1987
41 m awayRef 1987220204040
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 7 December 2004
42 m awayRef 200422DF42196
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 4 May 1992
45 m awayRef 1992220305001
Slight
Vauxhall Monterey crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 6 October 1996
57 m awayRef 199622BC04557
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 29 June 1979
57 m awayRef 1979220206047
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG ZR)
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 200722DE87512 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 2007.