A451 crash in Wyre Forest on 13 May 2007 at 21:12 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A451 in Wyre Forest at 21:12 on Sunday 13 May 2007. The 42-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 2007
- Sunday, 21:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3858, longitude -2.24417, in the DY10 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, DY10 1LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722DA86602
- 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
- 451
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 16 July 1980.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 16 July 1980
At the same spotRef 1980220107035
Slight
Toyota C-HR crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 30 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025221676775
Slight
Taxi crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 19 October 1981
14 m awayRef 1981220110029
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 16 April 2009
20 m awayRef 200922D902105
Slight
Tomos crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 9 February 1992
20 m awayRef 1992220102004
Slight
Jaguar Sovereign crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 17 March 1995
20 m awayRef 199522AV02710
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 200722DA86602 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 2007.