Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 12 September 2008 at 15:33 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 15:33 on Friday 12 September 2008. A 9-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
- 12 Sep 2008
- Friday, 15:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29846, longitude -1.92371, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822DE89031
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 2012.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 3 February 2012
At the same spotRef 201222C200559
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 3 November 2023
9 m awayRef 2023221371106
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 14 December 1995
10 m awayRef 199522BX08508
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 11 October 1991
10 m awayRef 1991220310011
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 7 July 2006
10 m awayRef 200622DE52372
Slight
Volvo 960 crash on an unclassified road in Bromsgrove, 13 October 1997
14 m awayRef 199722BD03500
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- 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
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200822DE89031 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.