Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 30 March 2013 at 23:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 23:45 on Saturday 30 March 2013. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2013
- Saturday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29294, longitude -1.88575, in the B98 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Matchborough & Woodrow, Redditch, B98 0AY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201322D301180
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 March 2012.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 March 2012
10 m awayRef 201222D201313
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 27 February 2009
10 m awayRef 200922D901232
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 26 January 2015
10 m awayRef 201522D500388
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 30 March 1996
20 m awayRef 199622BZ01679
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 17 June 2004
20 m awayRef 200422DF38385
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 7 January 2005
20 m awayRef 200522DF42334
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 201322D301180 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 2013.