Serious B4550 crash in Worcester on 30 December 1986 at 18:55 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B4550 in Worcester at 18:55 on Tuesday 30 December 1986. A 37-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.

Severity: Serious
Date: 30 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 18:55
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986220312072
Council area: Worcester
Police force: West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 4550
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
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

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 37, 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 1986220312072 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.