Serious unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY10 on 13 February 1997 at 13:55 involving an Austin Metro
An Austin Metro crashed on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 13:55 on Thursday 13 February 1997. A 17-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Feb 1997
- Thursday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36698, longitude -2.2273, in the DY10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kidderminster.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199722AD00648
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 233 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 2003.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 21 May 2003
233 m awayRef 200322DB30953
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 9 April 1985
262 m awayRef 1985220104018
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 27 August 1996
264 m awayRef 199622AL05830
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 9 May 1993
267 m awayRef 1993220105017
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 23 November 1990
283 m awayRef 1990220111057
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 3 November 1984
300 m awayRef 1984220111019
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Metro)
- 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 199722AD00648 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 1997.