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Serious A38 crash in Worcester on 20 October 1986 at 07:48 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A38 in Worcester at 07:48 on Monday 20 October 1986. A 54-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 30-year-old female driver was slightly injured.

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

Severity
Serious
Date
20 Oct 1986
Monday, 07:48
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19016, longitude -2.21777, in the WR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester.

Map of where the crash happened in Worcester

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1986220310045
Council area
Worcester
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
38
Road type
Dual 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
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 October 1995.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1986220310045 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 1986.