Serious unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 18 April 2019 at 17:40 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 17:40 on Thursday 18 April 2019. The 62-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Apr 2019
- Thursday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28256, longitude -1.92111, in the B98 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Matchborough & Woodrow, Redditch, B98 7UG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019220833409
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2015.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 11 November 2015
2 m awayRef 2015220036614
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 18 October 2004
4 m awayRef 200422DJ40722
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 March 2006
4 m awayRef 200622DE50528
Serious
DAF Trucks FA 45LF crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 5 September 2008
4 m awayRef 200822DE88999
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 March 2015
4 m awayRef 201522D501034
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 November 2000
4 m awayRef 200022BC17119
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 649 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 62, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2019220833409 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 2019.