Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 10 July 2008 at 18:20 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 18:20 on Thursday 10 July 2008. The 35-year-old female rider of the Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jul 2008
- Thursday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Suzuki GSXR 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28543, longitude -1.93444, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Headless Cross & Oakenshaw, Redditch, B98 7XQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822DE88685
- 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
- 40 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
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2007.
Slight
Volkswagen crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 2 April 2007
At the same spotRef 200722DE85956
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 September 2008
At the same spotRef 200822DE89039
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 30 November 2003
At the same spotRef 200322DJ34637
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 5 May 2000
10 m awayRef 200022BC13657
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 July 2004
10 m awayRef 200422DJ39316
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 September 1983
10 m awayRef 1983220209054
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSXR 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSXR 600)
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 200822DE88685 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.