A442 crash in Wychavon on 7 February 1997 at 16:47 involving a Ford Escort
Two Ford Escorts were involved in a crash on the A442 in Wychavon at 16:47 on Friday 7 February 1997. The 22-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 28-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 1997
- Friday, 16:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34097, longitude -2.19473, in the DY10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199722AU00570
- Council area
- Wychavon
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 442
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 March 2017.
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 8 March 2017
2 m awayRef 2017220166290
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 6 August 2016
2 m awayRef 2016220098013
Serious
Car crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 20 December 2016
3 m awayRef 2016220145084
Serious
Iveco Daily crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 22 October 2021
3 m awayRef 2021221101432
Serious
Vauxhall Movano crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 22 August 2021
4 m awayRef 2021221079575
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 3 September 2018
4 m awayRef 2018220324979
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 199722AU00570 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 1997.