B4085 crash in Wychavon on 26 June 1997 at 06:50 involving a Nissan Vanette
A Nissan Vanette and a Vauxhall Nova were involved in a crash on the B4085 in Wychavon at 06:50 on Thursday 26 June 1997. The 25-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Nova 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
- 26 Jun 1997
- Thursday, 06:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Vanette and Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13699, longitude -1.88672, in the WR11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199722CY03932
- Council area
- Wychavon
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4085
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B4085 in Wychavon, 11 June 1989
14 m awayRef 1989220306036
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4085 in Wychavon, 16 July 1994
32 m awayRef 199422BC05615
Serious
Datsun Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon, 15 May 1991
51 m awayRef 1991220305019
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4085 in Wychavon, 22 July 1990
58 m awayRef 1990220307037
Slight
Car crash on the B4085 in Wychavon, 19 December 1981
71 m awayRef 1981220312027
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B4085 in Wychavon, 30 May 2015
120 m awayRef 201522C502833
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Vanette
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,953 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Nova)
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 199722CY03932 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.