B4190 crash in Wyre Forest on 22 September 1987 at 19:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4190 in Wyre Forest at 19:00 on Tuesday 22 September 1987. The 22-year-old male driver and a 24-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 1987
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38843, longitude -2.2856, in the DY11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987220109053
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4190
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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 7 November 1999.
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4190 in Wyre Forest, 7 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199922AD11104
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the B4190 in Wyre Forest, 28 July 2020
3 m awayRef 2020220968414
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4190 in Wyre Forest, 4 September 2025
9 m awayRef 2025221642203
Fatal
Toyota Landcruiser crash on the B4190 in Wyre Forest, 12 January 2008
10 m awayRef 200822DA87625
Slight
Car crash on the B4190 in Wyre Forest, 1 May 1987
10 m awayRef 1987220105004
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4190 in Wyre Forest, 2 November 2024
11 m awayRef 2024221515623
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1987220109053 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 1987.