A449 crash in Wyre Forest on 5 October 2003 at 05:16 involving a car
A car crashed on the A449 in Wyre Forest at 05:16 on Sunday 5 October 2003. The 23-year-old male driver and a 21-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 2003
- Sunday, 05:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41983, longitude -2.21789, in the DY10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wyre Forest Rural, Wyre Forest, DY10 3TR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322DC33393
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 8 December 2012.
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A449 in Wyre Forest, 8 December 2012
At the same spotRef 201222D205048
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A449 in Wyre Forest, 27 July 1979
10 m awayRef 1979220107056
Serious
Toyota Tercel crash on the A449 in Wyre Forest, 17 January 1991
20 m awayRef 1991220101009
Fatal
Car crash on the A449 in Wyre Forest, 3 February 1979
30 m awayRef 1979220102001
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in Wyre Forest, 2 January 1986
32 m awayRef 1986220101007
Fatal
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A449 in Wyre Forest, 14 November 1997
58 m awayRef 199722AH05574
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200322DC33393 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.