Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 16 September 2011 at 17:50 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 17:50 on Friday 16 September 2011. A 5-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
- 16 Sep 2011
- Friday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30196, longitude -1.92532, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenlands & Lakeside, Redditch, B98 7EY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201122D103882
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2011.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 18 May 2011
14 m awayRef 201122D102012
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 3 March 1984
36 m awayRef 1984220203012
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 August 1982
36 m awayRef 1982220208021
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 13 September 1983
36 m awayRef 1983220209047
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 February 2006
36 m awayRef 200622DE49877
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 27 May 1983
40 m awayRef 1983220205045
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201122D103882 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 2011.