Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 18 September 2017 at 13:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 13:30 on Monday 18 September 2017. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 18 Sep 2017
- Monday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30641, longitude -1.9447, in the B97 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220221199
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 January 2017.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 19 January 2017
3 m awayRef 2017220147434
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 September 2017
3 m awayRef 2017220221061
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 30 March 2005
12 m awayRef 200522DE43931
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 30 March 1985
18 m awayRef 1985220203047
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 February 2009
18 m awayRef 200922D900709
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 23 July 1993
18 m awayRef 1993220307021
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2017220221199 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.