Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 27 October 2010 at 17:30 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 17:30 on Wednesday 27 October 2010. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 2010
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30899, longitude -1.94526, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Redditch, B97 6AD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201022D005446
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 1999.
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 26 February 1999
At the same spotRef 199922BW00480
Serious
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200522DX48717
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 30 September 2006
10 m awayRef 200622DE53807
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 13 September 1979
22 m awayRef 1979220209019
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 22 June 1994
22 m awayRef 199422BD04949
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 January 1998
42 m awayRef 199822BV00042
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- 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 201022D005446 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.