A46 crash in Wychavon on 1 December 2012 at 11:45 involving a Volkswagen Golf
Four vehicles, including a Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Fiesta, were involved in a crash on the A46 in Wychavon at 11:45 on Saturday 1 December 2012. The 25-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 4
- Volkswagen Golf and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07712, longitude -1.93504, in the WR11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222C204994
- 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
- 46
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 2018.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 26 April 2018
51 m awayRef 2018220288497
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 11 February 2020
53 m awayRef 2020220933861
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A46 in Worcester, 19 January 2001
72 m awayRef 200122CE20971
Slight
Car crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 13 March 2023
74 m awayRef 2023221286717
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A435 in Wychavon, 26 September 1994
103 m awayRef 199422BQ07812
Serious
Mitsubishi Space Star crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 13 September 2017
104 m awayRef 2017220219980
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,324 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 4: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 201222C204994 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 2012.