Serious A449 crash in Worcester on 18 February 2007 at 03:45 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A449 in Worcester at 03:45 on Sunday 18 February 2007. A 16-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and a 17-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Feb 2007
- Sunday, 03:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19137, longitude -2.22613, in the WR1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cathedral, Worcester, WR1 3QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722CA85721
- Council area
- Worcester
- 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
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- A
- Second road number
- 44
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 2014.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A449 in Worcester, 10 December 2014
At the same spotRef 201422C404697
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A449 in Worcester, 15 February 2006
At the same spotRef 200622CA52179
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A44 in Worcester, 16 April 1981
10 m awayRef 1981220304020
Slight
Car crash on the A44 in Worcester, 19 April 1986
10 m awayRef 1986220304047
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A44 in Worcester, 12 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200322CA36415
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A449 in Worcester, 23 June 2010
10 m awayRef 201022C003337
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200722CA85721 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worcester road accident statistics for 2007.