A448 crash in Wyre Forest on 24 May 1980 at 01:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A448 in Wyre Forest at 01:40 on Saturday 24 May 1980. A 20-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 1980
- Saturday, 01:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37492, longitude -2.21001, in the DY10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980220105056
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 448
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a fatal crash on 12 December 1991.
Fatal
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 12 December 1991
20 m awayRef 1991220112010
Serious
Car crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 15 July 1986
22 m awayRef 1986220107023
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 17 July 1990
22 m awayRef 1990220107024
Serious
Car crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 1 March 1981
30 m awayRef 1981220103003
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 2 October 2012
36 m awayRef 201222D203984
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 8 May 2014
40 m awayRef 201422D401677
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 1980220105056 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre Forest road accident statistics for 1980.