Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 15 May 2014 at 19:18 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 19:18 on Thursday 15 May 2014. A 25-year-old male passenger in the Ford Fusion was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2014
- Thursday, 19:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fusion and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30628, longitude -1.92487, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenlands & Lakeside, Redditch, B98 7EY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422D401780
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 February 1983.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 February 1983
28 m awayRef 1983220202008
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 20 April 1990
40 m awayRef 1990220204017
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 24 May 2001
40 m awayRef 200122BC20023
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 23 August 2005
41 m awayRef 200522DJ46815
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 July 2014
41 m awayRef 201422D402480
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 23 March 1980
41 m awayRef 1980220203039
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fusion)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201422D401780 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 2014.