Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 13 November 2013 at 19:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 19:45 on Wednesday 13 November 2013. The 33-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf 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
- 13 Nov 2013
- Wednesday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30467, longitude -1.93661, in the B98 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
- 201322D304220
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 June 1995.
Serious
Mitsubishi crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 29 June 1995
10 m awayRef 199522BY04783
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199622BP01164
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 17 October 2009
10 m awayRef 200922D905773
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 2 May 2008
10 m awayRef 200822DE88312
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 8 November 1988
14 m awayRef 1988220211029
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 19 December 2007
14 m awayRef 200722DE87560
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, 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 201322D304220 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.