Serious unclassified road crash in Worcester on 18 December 1986 at 23:10 involving a car

A car hit two pedestrians on an unclassified road in Worcester at 23:10 on Thursday 18 December 1986. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and a 21-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Serious
Date: 18 Dec 1986; Thursday, 23:10
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986220312067
Council area: Worcester
Police force: West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal
Second road class: Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, lighting unknown
Weather: Fine with high winds
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's offside

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 1986220312067 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.