Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 27 August 2010 at 10:30 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 10:30 on Friday 27 August 2010. A 71-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
- 27 Aug 2010
- Friday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30503, longitude -1.93397, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Redditch, B98 8DU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201022D004280
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 2020.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 18 October 2020
5 m awayRef 2020220991567
Serious
Volkswagen Beetle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 June 2002
10 m awayRef 200222BA25630
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 7 April 1984
10 m awayRef 1984220204004
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 7 October 2009
10 m awayRef 200922D905526
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 24 March 1984
10 m awayRef 1984220203032
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 February 1999
22 m awayRef 199922BL00241
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201022D004280 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 2010.