A4189 crash in Redditch on 11 December 2011 at 08:55 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A4189 in Redditch at 08:55 on Sunday 11 December 2011. A 28-year-old male passenger in the Seat Leon and a 26-year-old male passenger in the Seat Leon were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2011
- Sunday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30024, longitude -1.90685, in the B98 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Winyates, Redditch, B98 0JF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201122D105256
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4189
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2005.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A4189 in Redditch, 17 March 2005
50 m awayRef 200522DN43854
Slight
Car crash on the A448 in Redditch, 6 December 1981
51 m awayRef 1981220212003
Serious
Car crash on the A4189 in Redditch, 14 February 1984
54 m awayRef 1984220202025
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4189 in Redditch, 23 September 1989
54 m awayRef 1989220209028
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4189 in Redditch, 7 October 1994
54 m awayRef 199422BN08293
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A4189 in Redditch, 25 June 2012
64 m awayRef 201222D203035
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201122D105256 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.