A449 crash in Wychavon on 13 January 2008 at 19:00 involving a Fiat Panda
A car and a Fiat Panda were involved in a crash on the A449 in Wychavon at 19:00 on Sunday 13 January 2008. The 31-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 2008
- Sunday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Fiat Panda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29611, longitude -2.22725, in the DY13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822CA87419
- 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
- 449
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 16 September 2001.
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A449 in Wychavon, 16 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200122CF24800
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in Wychavon, 18 January 1996
At the same spotRef 199622CY00712
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A449 in Wychavon, 14 October 1995
At the same spotRef 199522CG13462
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in Wychavon, 17 June 1985
At the same spotRef 1985220306039
Slight
ERF crash on the A449 in Wychavon, 17 December 1993
10 m awayRef 1993220412033
Fatal
Car crash on the A449 in Wychavon, 28 November 1983
10 m awayRef 1983220311019
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200822CA87419 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 2008.