A448 crash in Wyre Forest on 8 May 2014 at 16:30 involving a Ford Puma
A Ford Puma crashed on the A448 in Wyre Forest at 16:30 on Thursday 8 May 2014. The 51-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2014
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Puma
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37489, longitude -2.21061, in the DY10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422D401677
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Raining, 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 14 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200622DA52086
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 18 August 2023
6 m awayRef 2023221344398
Slight
Car crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 25 November 1983
10 m awayRef 1983220111050
Fatal
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 12 December 1991
20 m awayRef 1991220112010
Serious
Car crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 15 July 1986
22 m awayRef 1986220107023
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A448 in Wyre Forest, 17 July 1990
22 m awayRef 1990220107024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,679 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Puma)
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 201422D401677 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre Forest road accident statistics for 2014.