A441 crash in Redditch on 18 September 2012 at 16:20 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Daewoo Matiz were involved in a crash on the A441 in Redditch at 16:20 on Tuesday 18 September 2012. The 57-year-old female driver of the Daewoo Matiz was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2012
- Tuesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Daewoo Matiz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30952, longitude -1.93118, in the B98 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Redditch, B98 8DU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222D203850
- 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
- 441
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2005.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A441 in Redditch, 28 November 2005
10 m awayRef 200522DE48494
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A441 in Redditch, 20 September 1990
14 m awayRef 1990220209024
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A441 in Redditch, 18 October 1991
14 m awayRef 1991220310022
Slight
Car crash on the A441 in Redditch, 8 December 1982
14 m awayRef 1982220212006
Serious
Car crash on the A441 in Redditch, 23 December 1980
14 m awayRef 1980220212031
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A441 in Redditch, 23 February 1990
41 m awayRef 1990220202033
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Daewoo Matiz)
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 201222D203850 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 2012.