Unclassified road crash in Wychavon WR11 on 15 December 2001 at 23:00 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon at 23:00 on Saturday 15 December 2001. The 39-year-old female driver of the Mazda MX-5 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
- 15 Dec 2001
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda MX-5 and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13968, longitude -1.9123, 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
- 200122CE26550
- Council area
- Wychavon
- 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
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 15 August 2001.
Fatal
Rover 75 crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon, 15 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200122CE24379
Slight
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Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon, 10 September 2000
10 m awayRef 200022CE18905
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A439 in Wychavon, 1 May 1990
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon, 25 September 2025
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Slight
Bus crash on the A439 in Wychavon, 3 December 1987
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
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 200122CE26550 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 2001.