A448 crash in Wyre Forest on 18 March 2003 at 08:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest at 08:00 on Tuesday 18 March 2003. The 38-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2003
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3816, longitude -2.22901, in the DY10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kidderminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Offmore & Comberton, Wyre Forest, DY10 3DB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322AA23236
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 448
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 4 October 1984
10 m awayRef 1984220110020
Serious
MG Metro crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 3 May 1994
10 m awayRef 199422AL04450
Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 29 January 2003
10 m awayRef 200322AA22870
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 2 November 1988
14 m awayRef 1988220111012
Slight
Car crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 10 May 1987
22 m awayRef 1987220105026
Serious
Car crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 13 January 1979
36 m awayRef 1979220101026
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200322AA23236 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 2003.