Serious unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 25 April 2015 at 22:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 22:30 on Saturday 25 April 2015. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Apr 2015
- Saturday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30758, longitude -1.94378, in the B97 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201522D502939
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 April 2017
11 m awayRef 2017220175931
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 22 October 2002
22 m awayRef 200222BA27539
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B4160 in Redditch, 2 September 2012
28 m awayRef 201222D203600
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B4160 in Redditch, 1 December 1996
32 m awayRef 199622BK05461
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 28 October 1994
36 m awayRef 199422BN08730
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 6 October 1996
36 m awayRef 199622BB04556
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201522D502939 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 2015.