Unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY11 on 28 November 1980 at 22:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 22:30 on Friday 28 November 1980. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 1980
- Friday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38894, longitude -2.25857, in the DY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kidderminster.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980220111071
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 1995.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 18 January 1995
22 m awayRef 199522AD00763
Slight
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28 m awayRef 200822DA89219
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 4 February 1986
30 m awayRef 1986220102008
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 20 June 2018
30 m awayRef 2018220303672
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 2 December 2005
32 m awayRef 200522DC48673
Slight
Yamaha XSR crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 1 August 2025
34 m awayRef 2025221623593
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 1980220111071 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.