Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 9 July 2025 at 18:38 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Land Rover Range Rover Sport were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 18:38 on Wednesday 9 July 2025. The 65-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra and the 33-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Range Rover Sport were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Wednesday, 18:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Land Rover Range Rover Sport
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29132, longitude -1.94407, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Redditch, B98 7NG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025221615875
- 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
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 2018.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 17 November 2018
1 m awayRef 2018220344869
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 5 December 2021
2 m awayRef 2021221119713
Slight
Volvo 460 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 2 June 1999
2 m awayRef 199922BX01332
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 14 May 1989
2 m awayRef 1989220205020
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 20 January 2003
2 m awayRef 200322BC28800
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 April 2021
4 m awayRef 2021221036135
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Sport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover Sport)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025221615875 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 2025.