A448 crash in Redditch on 8 October 2014 at 08:15 involving a Mazda 3
A Mazda 3 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A448 in Redditch at 08:15 on Wednesday 8 October 2014. The 35-year-old male driver of the Mazda 3 and the 36-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 2014
- Wednesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 3 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29181, longitude -1.94059, in the B97 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Redditch, B98 7NG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422D403734
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 448
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 441
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A448 in Redditch, 23 January 1984
10 m awayRef 1984220201032
Serious
Piaggio X9 crash on the A448 in Redditch, 17 June 2011
10 m awayRef 201122D102449
Serious
Car crash on the A448 in Redditch, 18 January 1983
10 m awayRef 1983220201016
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A448 in Redditch, 28 April 2000
14 m awayRef 200022BE13405
Slight
Volkswagen 1200 crash on the A448 in Redditch, 6 November 1995
14 m awayRef 199522BX07519
Slight
DAF Trucks FTG 85CF crash on the A448 in Redditch, 4 May 2011
20 m awayRef 201122D101772
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 3)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, 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 201422D403734 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.