A448 crash in Bromsgrove on 14 February 2014 at 17:30 involving a Subaru Impreza
A Subaru Impreza crashed on the A448 in Bromsgrove at 17:30 on Friday 14 February 2014. The 43-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 2014
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Impreza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33165, longitude -2.03475, in the B60 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromsgrove
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422D400680
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 448
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 11 December 2009
10 m awayRef 200922D906972
Slight
Car crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 9 December 1987
28 m awayRef 1987220212008
Slight
HGV crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 13 February 2010
30 m awayRef 201022D000840
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 23 November 1999
45 m awayRef 199922BE10593
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 7 August 1981
63 m awayRef 1981220208024
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromsgrove, 18 February 2008
71 m awayRef 200822DE87883
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
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 201422D400680 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromsgrove road accident statistics for 2014.