Serious A448 crash in Bromsgrove on 8 April 2007 at 15:12 involving a car
A car crashed on the A448 in Bromsgrove at 15:12 on Sunday 8 April 2007. There were five casualties: one person was seriously injured and four were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Apr 2007
- Sunday, 15:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31574, longitude -1.99762, in the B97 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722DE85978
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 448
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 2020.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 29 May 2020
13 m awayRef 2020220955216
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 11 June 2001
14 m awayRef 200122BE20102
Slight
Car crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 12 May 2007
63 m awayRef 200722DE86172
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A448 in Redditch, 23 March 1979
134 m awayRef 1979220203036
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the B4096 in Bromsgrove, 20 February 2017
172 m awayRef 2017220163748
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B4096 in Bromsgrove, 23 June 2025
185 m awayRef 2025221606637
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200722DE85978 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromsgrove road accident statistics for 2007.