A44 crash in Wychavon on 10 December 1995 at 01:07 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A44 in Wychavon at 01:07 on Sunday 10 December 1995. The 62-year-old female driver and a 45-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 1995
- Sunday, 01:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.11526, longitude -2.08977, in the WR10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199522BB08236
- Council area
- Wychavon
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A44 in Wychavon, 22 June 1985
At the same spotRef 1985220306062
Fatal
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4084 in Wychavon, 17 March 2014
10 m awayRef 201422C400889
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A44 in Wychavon, 8 March 1996
22 m awayRef 199622BA01335
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B4084 in Wychavon, 20 December 2011
22 m awayRef 201122C105450
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A44 in Wychavon, 31 October 2001
32 m awayRef 200122CD25514
Serious
Car crash on the A44 in Wychavon, 2 September 1985
42 m awayRef 1985220309003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199522BB08236 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wychavon road accident statistics for 1995.