Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 31 May 2017 at 13:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 13:00 on Wednesday 31 May 2017. The 18-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2017
- Wednesday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27945, longitude -1.94001, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Headless Cross & Oakenshaw, Redditch, B98 7XQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220186720
- 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
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 28 October 1982
19 m awayRef 1982220210024
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 July 2005
22 m awayRef 200522DG45925
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 6 May 1994
28 m awayRef 199422BD03556
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 4 February 2005
28 m awayRef 200522DE43140
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 28 September 1987
32 m awayRef 1987220209038
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 January 2000
36 m awayRef 200022BD11400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 18, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2017220186720 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.