Serious A441 crash in Bromsgrove on 12 August 2008 at 20:02 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A car, a Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A441 in Bromsgrove at 20:02 on Tuesday 12 August 2008. The 33-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was seriously injured and a 2-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Aug 2008
- Tuesday, 20:02
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Astra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36221, longitude -1.94974, in the B48 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnt Green & Hopwood, Bromsgrove, B48 7AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromsgrove
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822DE88865
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 42
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2011.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A441 in Bromsgrove, 21 August 2011
At the same spotRef 201122D103499
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A442 in Bromsgrove, 6 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200322MC34870
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the A441 in Bromsgrove, 30 March 2003
10 m awayRef 200322MB30003
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A441 in Bromsgrove, 25 April 2015
14 m awayRef 201522D501602
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A441 in Bromsgrove, 15 July 2005
14 m awayRef 200522DL45924
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A441 in Bromsgrove, 20 October 2009
22 m awayRef 200922D905846
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200822DE88865 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromsgrove road accident statistics for 2008.