A4440 crash in Worcester on 22 April 2014 at 14:00 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A4440 in Worcester at 14:00 on Tuesday 22 April 2014. The 46-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series and the 30-year-old male driver of the lorry were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Apr 2014
- Tuesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and lorry
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16659, longitude -2.20495, in the WR5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Peter's Parish, Worcester, WR5 3SS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422C401483
- Council area
- Worcester
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4440
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 2009.
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 27 August 2009
14 m awayRef 200922C904753
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 21 September 1995
22 m awayRef 199522CV12393
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 3 February 1996
22 m awayRef 199622CJ01435
Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A422 in Worcester, 13 September 1991
32 m awayRef 1991220409016
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 18 November 2015
32 m awayRef 2015220033368
Slight
Scania crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 16 February 2008
50 m awayRef 200822CA87623
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 2 (Lorry)
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 201422C401483 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worcester road accident statistics for 2014.