A4536 crash in Worcester on 24 December 1997 at 13:35 involving a Rover Mini
A Rover Mini and a Citroen AX were involved in a crash on the A4536 in Worcester at 13:35 on Wednesday 24 December 1997. The 34-year-old male driver of the Rover Mini and a 30-year-old male passenger in the Rover Mini were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1997
- Wednesday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Mini and Citroen AX
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2124, longitude -2.19871, in the WR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199722CX08186
- Council area
- Worcester
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4536
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Mini)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Mini)
- 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 199722CX08186 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.