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A456 crash in Wyre Forest on 7 June 1981 at 18:15 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest at 18:15 on Sunday 7 June 1981. A 24-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
7 Jun 1981
Sunday, 18:15
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38651, longitude -2.26031, in the DY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kidderminster.

Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1981220106015
Council area
Wyre Forest
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
456
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
Daylight
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 1996.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 24, 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 1981220106015 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.