Unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY10 on 24 December 2008 at 23:24 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 23:24 on Wednesday 24 December 2008. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2008
- Wednesday, 23:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39326, longitude -2.24377, in the DY10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kidderminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Offmore & Comberton, Wyre Forest, DY10 1PR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822D801151
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 1990.
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 18 January 1990
10 m awayRef 1990220101053
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 8 June 1987
20 m awayRef 1987220106010
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 26 September 1996
20 m awayRef 199622AU06665
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 17 October 1990
22 m awayRef 1990220110021
Slight
FSO Cars 125 crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 19 April 1994
22 m awayRef 199422AL04151
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 17 July 1990
22 m awayRef 1990220107039
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 200822D801151 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 2008.