A44 crash in Worcester on 15 July 2014 at 09:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2014
- Tuesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Mini One
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18579, longitude -2.17447, in the WR5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leopard Hill, Worcester, WR4 0SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422C402615
- 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
- 44
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4440
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 October 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the A422 in Worcester, 22 October 2004
10 m awayRef 200422CA44056
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 21 April 1996
10 m awayRef 199622CF04974
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 20 April 2015
20 m awayRef 201522C501449
Serious
Honda S2000 crash on the A44 in Worcester, 29 December 2014
20 m awayRef 201422C500042
Slight
Honda HR-V crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 4 May 2004
20 m awayRef 200422CF41057
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 6 December 2002
20 m awayRef 200222CG32307
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Mini One
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini One)
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 201422C402615 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.