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A442 crash in Wyre Forest on 4 January 2011 at 09:30 involving a Fiat Ducato van

A Fiat Ducato van crashed on the A442 in Wyre Forest at 09:30 on Tuesday 4 January 2011. The 45-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
4 Jan 2011
Tuesday, 09:30
Vehicles
1
Fiat Ducato
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40973, longitude -2.27546, in the DY11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wyre Forest Rural, Wyre Forest, DY11 5QP area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
201122D100098
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
442
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 2019.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Fiat Ducato

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South
    Position at junction
    Not at or within 20 metres of junction
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    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
    Male
    Driver age
    45 years
    Engine capacity
    2,286 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 45, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Ducato)

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 201122D100098 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 2011.