A435 crash in Stratford-on-Avon on 15 July 2016 at 20:20 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon at 20:20 on Friday 15 July 2016. An 18-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2016
- Friday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29767, longitude -1.87896, in the B80 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Matchborough & Woodrow, Redditch, B98 0AY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016230090637
- Council area
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 435
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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 7 April 2011.
Slight
Car crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 7 April 2011
4 m awayRef 2011231190370
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 29 August 1997
14 m awayRef 1997239701504
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 27 August 1995
14 m awayRef 1995239501389
Slight
Kymco Stryker crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 13 October 2004
21 m awayRef 2004230491591
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 4 June 2001
21 m awayRef 2001230191004
Serious
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 6 July 1993
22 m awayRef 1993239301096
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 2016230090637 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stratford-on-Avon road accident statistics for 2016.