A448 crash in Wyre Forest on 20 June 1997 at 20:20 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A448 in Wyre Forest at 20:20 on Friday 20 June 1997. The 32-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jun 1997
- Friday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36668, longitude -2.19455, 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
- 199722AJ03091
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 448
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 23 August 1998.
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 23 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199822AD03661
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 24 October 2025
21 m awayRef 2025221660122
Slight
Car crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 13 February 1988
30 m awayRef 1988220102012
Slight
Van crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 13 December 1989
36 m awayRef 1989220112013
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 26 August 1995
50 m awayRef 199522AQ09031
Serious
Car crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 20 June 1987
50 m awayRef 1987220106033
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 199722AJ03091 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.