Serious unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 31 October 2017 at 08:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 08:05 on Tuesday 31 October 2017. A 48-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Oct 2017
- Tuesday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3042, longitude -1.9297, in the B98 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Redditch, B98 8DU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220235072
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 2000.
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 October 2000
3 m awayRef 200022BC16506
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 July 1981
10 m awayRef 1981220207015
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 11 February 1997
20 m awayRef 199722BK00424
Slight
Ford crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 26 April 1997
20 m awayRef 199722BN01255
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 8 August 2003
20 m awayRef 200322DJ32564
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 27 December 1996
21 m awayRef 199622BY05772
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Cycle lane (on main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2017220235072 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.