A435 crash in Bromsgrove on 21 April 2018 at 04:50 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a car were involved in a crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove at 04:50 on Saturday 21 April 2018. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2018
- Saturday, 04:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40072, longitude -1.89054, in the B38 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromsgrove
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018220286729
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 435
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 1997.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 2 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199722BY03771
Fatal
MAN crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 29 April 2022
39 m awayRef 2022221172081
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 27 February 1995
40 m awayRef 199522BE01362
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 23 May 1999
66 m awayRef 199922BY01264
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 7 May 2008
82 m awayRef 200822DE88384
Serious
Van crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 5 June 1981
93 m awayRef 1981220206005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- 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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018220286729 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromsgrove road accident statistics for 2018.