Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 19 March 2017 at 16:40 involving a Skoda Citigo
A Skoda Citigo and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 16:40 on Sunday 19 March 2017. The 20-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 2017
- Sunday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Citigo and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28921, longitude -1.90245, in the B98 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Matchborough & Woodrow, Redditch, B98 0DT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220168167
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4497
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 1992.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 23 November 1992
8 m awayRef 1992220311032
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 September 1989, ref 1989220209010
10 m awayRef 1989220209010
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 September 1989, ref 1989220209020
10 m awayRef 1989220209020
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 20 October 1996
10 m awayRef 199622BL04841
Slight
Harley-Davidson crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 21 May 1995
10 m awayRef 199522BD03822
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4497 in Redditch, 27 November 1995
10 m awayRef 199522BN07948
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Citigo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
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 2017220168167 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 2017.