Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 15 December 2012 at 12:12 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 12:12 on Saturday 15 December 2012. The 21-year-old female driver of the Ford KA and the 37-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 12:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30809, longitude -1.94262, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Redditch, B98 8DU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222D205237
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 23 May 1989
10 m awayRef 1989220205061
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 28 June 1988
10 m awayRef 1988220206042
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 19 July 1983
10 m awayRef 1983220207038
Slight
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 December 2009
14 m awayRef 200922D907121
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 3 February 1999
22 m awayRef 199922BW00227
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 26 March 1999
22 m awayRef 199922BV00755
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 201222D205237 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.