Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 12 November 2016 at 02:50 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 02:50 on Saturday 12 November 2016. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2016
- Saturday, 02:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28727, longitude -1.92538, 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 7QU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016220144618
- 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
- Other 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 January 1982
51 m awayRef 1982220201021
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 23 October 2006
61 m awayRef 200622DE85007
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 December 1983
74 m awayRef 1983220212022
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 February 2000
74 m awayRef 200022BC12287
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 5 July 1987
79 m awayRef 1987220207033
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 4 December 1997
83 m awayRef 199722BG04124
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 2016220144618 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.