Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 27 February 2009 at 08:30 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 08:30 on Friday 27 February 2009. The 26-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus 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
- 27 Feb 2009
- Friday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Swift and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29303, longitude -1.88575, in the B98 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Matchborough & Woodrow, Redditch, B98 0AY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200922D901232
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 March 2012.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201222D201313
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 26 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201522D500388
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 30 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199622BZ01679
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 30 March 2013
10 m awayRef 201322D301180
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 17 June 2004
10 m awayRef 200422DF38385
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 7 January 2005
10 m awayRef 200522DF42334
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 200922D901232 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 2009.