Unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY12 on 15 September 2008 at 15:10 involving a van
A van crashed on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 15:10 on Monday 15 September 2008. The 32-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2008
- Monday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36628, longitude -2.32278, in the DY12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bewdley & Rock, Wyre Forest, DY12 2PE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822DA88972
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 31 December 1991
54 m awayRef 1991220112033
Slight
Car crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 22 July 1989
70 m awayRef 1989220107035
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 12 November 2013
86 m awayRef 201322D304171
Fatal
Saab 9-5 crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 18 April 2007
108 m awayRef 200722DA86042
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 10 June 2025
113 m awayRef 2025221601200
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 10 August 1997
136 m awayRef 199722AD03891
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 200822DA88972 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.