Serious unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 12 July 2018 at 14:40 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Redditch at 14:40 on Thursday 12 July 2018. A 2-year-old male 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
- 12 Jul 2018
- Thursday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29641, longitude -1.92835, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenlands & Lakeside, Redditch, B98 7EY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018220313544
- 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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2011.
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 18 July 2011
8 m awayRef 201122D102914
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 3 July 2019
34 m awayRef 2019220855379
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 30 January 1989
37 m awayRef 1989220201042
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 20 November 2013
38 m awayRef 201322D304366
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 7 July 1981
48 m awayRef 1981220207007
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 3 January 1995
89 m awayRef 199522BU00087
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 2, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018220313544 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 2018.