Serious A4023 crash in Redditch on 19 September 2021 at 01:25 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A4023 in Redditch at 01:25 on Sunday 19 September 2021. A 20-year-old male passenger and the 25-year-old male driver were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Sep 2021
- Sunday, 01:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31019, longitude -1.91955, in the B98 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021221089133
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4023
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2006.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A4023 in Redditch, 24 June 2006
10 m awayRef 200622DE52303
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the A4023 in Redditch, 15 July 2023
14 m awayRef 2023221330922
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4023 in Redditch, 18 May 1991
31 m awayRef 1991220305021
Serious
Leyland Cars crash on the A4023 in Redditch, 31 August 1996
46 m awayRef 199622BT04042
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4023 in Redditch, 30 July 1997
53 m awayRef 199722BQ02545
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4023 in Redditch, 16 October 1993
72 m awayRef 1993220310028
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2021221089133 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 2021.