Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 23 April 2009 at 18:55 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 18:55 on Thursday 23 April 2009. An 18-year-old female passenger 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
- 23 Apr 2009
- Thursday, 18:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28757, longitude -1.91464, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Matchborough & Woodrow, Redditch, B98 7UG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200922D902264
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 1994.
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 29 June 1994
14 m awayRef 199422BA05613
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 30 March 2001
28 m awayRef 200122BC19113
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 18 November 1988
28 m awayRef 1988220211036
Slight
Wrightbus Streetlite crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 29 August 2019
35 m awayRef 2019220873476
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 24 February 2005
36 m awayRef 200522DJ43465
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 February 2000
36 m awayRef 200022BC12228
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 200922D902264 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.