Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 29 December 2012 at 20:50 involving a Fiat Doblo taxi
A Fiat Doblo taxi and a Toyota Hiace van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 20:50 on Saturday 29 December 2012. A 19-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Hiace van and a 24-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Hiace van were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Doblo and Toyota Hiace
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31005, longitude -1.91005, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Winyates, Redditch, B98 0JF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222D300052
- 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
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 October 1998.
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 22 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199822BB03015
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 18 July 2004
10 m awayRef 200422DF39036
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 2 April 2005
14 m awayRef 200522DF43991
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 June 2007
14 m awayRef 200722DE86317
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 10 June 1995
20 m awayRef 199522BL04243
Fatal
Van crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 31 July 1979
20 m awayRef 1979220207026
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Doblo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Hiace
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Hiace)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Hiace)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201222D300052 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.