A449 crash in Worcester on 11 May 2014 at 11:15 involving a Seat Exeo
A Seat Exeo and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A449 in Worcester at 11:15 on Sunday 11 May 2014. The 51-year-old female driver of the Seat Exeo and the 33-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 2014
- Sunday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Exeo and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21879, longitude -2.22729, in the WR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Claines, Worcester, WR3 7NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422C401679
- 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
- 449
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 1996.
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in Worcester, 13 January 1996
At the same spotRef 199622CX00803
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in Worcester, 7 December 1984
At the same spotRef 1984220312022
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A449 in Worcester, 25 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199822CH05390
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A449 in Worcester, 8 August 2000
At the same spotRef 200022CF18306
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A449 in Worcester, 7 November 1983
At the same spotRef 1983220311006
Slight
Volvo crash on the A449 in Worcester, 1 July 2017
9 m awayRef 2017220197946
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Exeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Exeo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201422C401679 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.