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A449 crash in Wyre Forest on 18 July 1998 at 00:10 involving a Nissan Primera taxi

A Nissan Primera taxi crashed on the A449 in Wyre Forest at 00:10 on Saturday 18 July 1998. A 23-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
18 Jul 1998
Saturday, 00:10
Vehicles
1
Nissan Primera
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.35843, longitude -2.23372, in the DY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Summerfield.

Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199822AN03095
Council area
Wyre Forest
Police force
West Mercia
Highway authority
Worcestershire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
449
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry
Carriageway hazards
Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 24 July 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Nissan Primera

    Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bollard or refuge
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    42 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 23, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Primera)

    Car passenger
    Rear 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 199822AN03095 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 1998.