Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 3 October 2025 at 22:10 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 22:10 on Friday 3 October 2025. The 23-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and a 28-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2025
- Friday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29864, longitude -1.93469, in the B98 postcode district. 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
- 2025221654732
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 July 1985.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 12 July 1985
4 m awayRef 1985220207037
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 12 February 1998
6 m awayRef 199822BF00351
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromsgrove, 23 August 1981
12 m awayRef 1981220208046
Slight
FSO Cars Polonez crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 April 1997
13 m awayRef 199722BG01088
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 June 1979
26 m awayRef 1979220206028
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 December 1980
35 m awayRef 1980220212026
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2025221654732 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.