Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 18 August 2009 at 16:45 involving a Chevrolet Kalos
A Chevrolet Kalos and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 16:45 on Tuesday 18 August 2009. The 53-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2009
- Tuesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Chevrolet Kalos and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28263, longitude -1.92169, in the B98 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Matchborough & Woodrow, Redditch, B98 7UG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200922D904539
- 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
- Dual 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 22 February 2011
10 m awayRef 201122D100809
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 24 May 2004
20 m awayRef 200422DJ38044
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 September 1989
30 m awayRef 1989220209007
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 2 April 2010
32 m awayRef 201022D001749
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 28 December 2011
32 m awayRef 201122D105491
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 31 May 1996
32 m awayRef 199622BK02609
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Chevrolet Kalos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 200922D904539 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.