Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 22 September 2017 at 17:50 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford Fusion were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 17:50 on Friday 22 September 2017. The 70-year-old male driver of the Ford Fusion 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
- 22 Sep 2017
- Friday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford Fusion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31117, longitude -1.95291, 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, B97 6AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redditch
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220223296
- 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
- Unclassified
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 2 November 2015
9 m awayRef 2015220036285
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 24 January 1988
13 m awayRef 1988220201020
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 July 1982
18 m awayRef 1982220207013
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 3 July 2007
24 m awayRef 200722DE86541
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 September 2017
33 m awayRef 2017220218310
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 December 2025
38 m awayRef 2025221681617
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fusion)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017220223296 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.