B4550 crash in Worcester on 1 May 1997 at 22:10 involving a Ford Transit minibus
A Ford Transit minibus, an Austin Metro and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B4550 in Worcester at 22:10 on Thursday 1 May 1997. The 22-year-old male driver of the Austin Metro was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 1997
- Thursday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20159, longitude -2.20992, in the WR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199722CP02452
- Council area
- Worcester
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4550
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 January 1995.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4550 in Worcester, 11 January 1995
At the same spotRef 199522CP00349
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 1 March 1992
At the same spotRef 1992220403001
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the B4550 in Worcester, 21 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199822CH05988
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4550 in Worcester, 17 March 1994
At the same spotRef 1994220403042
Slight
Renault crash on the B4550 in Worcester, 22 March 2018
7 m awayRef 2018220280627
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B4550 in Worcester, 7 December 2018
9 m awayRef 2018220350230
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Austin Metro)
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 199722CP02452 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worcester road accident statistics for 1997.