A4440 crash in Wychavon on 29 November 2004 at 17:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A4440 in Wychavon at 17:15 on Monday 29 November 2004. The 56-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 38-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 2004
- Monday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17859, longitude -2.18395, in the WR5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Drakes Broughton, Norton & Whittington, Wychavon, WR5 2QZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200422CA44869
- Council area
- Wychavon
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4440
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 2007.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A4440 in Wychavon, 4 October 2007
10 m awayRef 200722CA86925
Slight
Car crash on the A4440 in Wychavon, 17 January 2008
14 m awayRef 200822CA87441
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4440 in Wychavon, 15 May 2006
14 m awayRef 200622CA53576
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4440 in Wychavon, 6 September 2019
23 m awayRef 2019220875891
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon, 20 July 1996
36 m awayRef 199622CB08604
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A4440 in Wychavon, 22 October 2014
42 m awayRef 201422C403999
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 200422CA44869 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 2004.