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Serious A449 crash in Wyre Forest on 1 March 1981 at 09:25 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A449 in Wyre Forest at 09:25 on Sunday 1 March 1981. A 27-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured and the 52-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
1 Mar 1981
Sunday, 09:25
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40618, longitude -2.22648, in the DY10 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1981220103002
Council area
Wyre Forest
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
449
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
B
Second road number
4189

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 1986.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside onto central reservation
    Hit object off carriageway
    Road sign or traffic signal
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    52 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)

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 1981220103002 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 1981.