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A44 crash in Worcester on 4 January 1979 at 01:45 involving a car

A car crashed on the A44 in Worcester at 01:45 on Thursday 4 January 1979. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
4 Jan 1979
Thursday, 01:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18157, longitude -2.19345, in the WR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester.

Map of where the crash happened in Worcester

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979220301003
Council area
Worcester
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
44
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
442

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Other
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2010.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 1979220301003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worcester road accident statistics for 1979.