Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 9 October 2010 at 21:54 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 21:54 on Saturday 9 October 2010. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2010
- Saturday, 21:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30647, longitude -1.93763, 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
- 201022D005010
- 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
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 22 July 2018
9 m awayRef 2018220313422
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 8 October 2020
15 m awayRef 2020220992570
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 March 1991
22 m awayRef 1991220303004
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 6 December 2002
28 m awayRef 200222BA28664
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 November 1988
28 m awayRef 1988220211018
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 25 September 2010
28 m awayRef 201022D004778
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 201022D005010 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.