A448 crash in Wyre Forest on 13 December 1989 at 17:25 involving a van
A van crashed on the A448 in Wyre Forest at 17:25 on Wednesday 13 December 1989. The 18-year-old male driver and a 17-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
- 13 Dec 1989
- Wednesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36695, longitude -2.19485, in the DY10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989220112013
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 448
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 1995.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 26 August 1995
14 m awayRef 199522AQ09031
Serious
Car crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 20 June 1987
14 m awayRef 1987220106033
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 24 October 2025
16 m awayRef 2025221660122
Serious
Car crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 23 December 1984
22 m awayRef 1984220112041
Slight
Volkswagen crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 14 January 1994
22 m awayRef 1994220101021
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 31 December 1996
32 m awayRef 199622AM08798
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,404 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 1989220112013 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 1989.