A441 crash in Redditch on 30 September 2012 at 17:45 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A441 in Redditch at 17:45 on Sunday 30 September 2012. A 30-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2012
- Sunday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28129, longitude -1.9299, in the B98 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Headless Cross & Oakenshaw, Redditch, B98 7XQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222D204059
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 441
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 1996.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A441 in Redditch, 5 February 1996
10 m awayRef 199622BZ01587
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A441 in Redditch, 5 October 1983
10 m awayRef 1983220210004
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A441 in Redditch, 12 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199722BW00779
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A441 in Redditch, 24 April 1997
14 m awayRef 199722BD01246
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A441 in Redditch, 18 June 2007
14 m awayRef 200722DE86410
Slight
Car crash on the A441 in Redditch, 6 December 1985
20 m awayRef 1985220212011
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,874 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201222D204059 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.