Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 17 February 2008 at 15:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 15:40 on Sunday 17 February 2008. A 45-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2008
- Sunday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30286, longitude -1.92488, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenlands & Lakeside, Redditch, B98 7EY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822DE87855
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 September 2004.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 4 September 2004
36 m awayRef 200422DJ39987
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 September 1979
40 m awayRef 1979220209002
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 4 June 1984
40 m awayRef 1984220206029
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 7 May 1984
50 m awayRef 1984220205001
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 28 July 2003
58 m awayRef 200322DJ32405
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 5 October 2001
64 m awayRef 200122BC21954
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 200822DE87855 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 2008.