Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 14 November 2012 at 16:07 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 16:07 on Wednesday 14 November 2012. A 4-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
- 14 Nov 2012
- Wednesday, 16:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30104, longitude -1.89482, in the B98 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222D204639
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 18 October 1985
At the same spotRef 1985220210049
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 14 December 1983
30 m awayRef 1983220212024
Serious
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 5 June 1992
40 m awayRef 1992220306006
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 26 March 1983
41 m awayRef 1983220203028
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 20 June 1980
60 m awayRef 1980220206027
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 12 October 2007
60 m awayRef 200722DE87082
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201222D204639 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.