Unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY11 on 8 December 2004 at 08:25 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 08:25 on Wednesday 8 December 2004. An 8-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 8 Dec 2004
- Wednesday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38771, longitude -2.27342, in the DY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kidderminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blakebrook & Habberley South, Wyre Forest, DY11 6JT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200422DC41794
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 1996.
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 29 April 1996
10 m awayRef 199622AT02938
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 26 July 1981
10 m awayRef 1981220107070
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 30 November 1999
20 m awayRef 199922AA11457
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 28 October 1996
20 m awayRef 199622AY07589
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 26 March 1980
73 m awayRef 1980220103037
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 26 December 1990
76 m awayRef 1990220112055
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200422DC41794 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 2004.