A4440 crash in Wychavon on 6 August 1995 at 11:56 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Kawasaki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4440 in Wychavon at 11:56 on Sunday 6 August 1995. The 20-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo and the 29-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 1995
- Sunday, 11:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18619, longitude -2.17562, in the WR5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199522CK10682
- Council area
- Wychavon
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4440
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2000.
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 12 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200022CG16030
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 31 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200522CA51400
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 1 May 2004
10 m awayRef 200422CA40903
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 6 February 2016
17 m awayRef 2016220052469
Slight
Taxi crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 22 April 2022
31 m awayRef 2022221170281
Slight
Ford Ecosport crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 4 May 2018
33 m awayRef 2018220292540
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,093 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki)
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 199522CK10682 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.