Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 15 March 2016 at 17:15 involving a Mazda 2
A Mazda 2 and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 17:15 on Tuesday 15 March 2016. The 32-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 2016
- Tuesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 2 and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3051, longitude -1.93334, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016220072962
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 6 December 1992
4 m awayRef 1992220312005
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 29 December 1982
4 m awayRef 1982220212022
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 13 May 1988
4 m awayRef 1988220205025
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 24 July 2021
8 m awayRef 2021221071860
Slight
MG Metro crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 27 March 1990
9 m awayRef 1990220203045
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 11 December 1992
13 m awayRef 1992220312017
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 2016220072962 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 2016.