M42 crash in Bromsgrove on 6 September 2012 at 19:00 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A Land Rover Discovery crashed on the M42 in Bromsgrove at 19:00 on Thursday 6 September 2012. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2012
- Thursday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.35472, longitude -1.9057, in the B48 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromsgrove
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222D203899
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 42
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2003.
Slight
Car crash on the M42 in Bromsgrove, 12 August 2003
20 m awayRef 200322MC32542
Serious
Car crash on the M42 in Bromsgrove, 14 January 2022
33 m awayRef 2022221131926
Serious
BMW M Roadster crash on the M42 in Bromsgrove, 26 January 2002
82 m awayRef 200222MB23749
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the M42 in Bromsgrove, 5 May 1991
100 m awayRef 1991220205007
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M42 in Bromsgrove, 18 November 2010
102 m awayRef 201022D005761
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the M42 in Bromsgrove, 9 November 2004
103 m awayRef 200422MC41195
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Discovery)
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 201222D203899 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromsgrove road accident statistics for 2012.