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Unclassified road crash in Worcester WR11 on 16 December 2000 at 00:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo

A Volkswagen Polo crashed on an unclassified road in Worcester at 00:30 on Saturday 16 December 2000. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
16 Dec 2000
Saturday, 00:30
Vehicles
1
Volkswagen Polo
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0973, longitude -1.87384, in the WR11 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Worcester

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200022CE20573
Council area
Worcester
Police force
West Mercia
Police attended the scene
Yes
Highway authority
Worcestershire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 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
Dark, lighting unknown
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 1991.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bollard or refuge
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years
    Engine capacity
    1,390 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    4 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)

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 200022CE20573 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 2000.