B4195 crash in Wyre Forest on 16 August 2014 at 00:05 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a BMW Z3 were involved in a crash on the B4195 in Wyre Forest at 00:05 on Saturday 16 August 2014. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2014
- Saturday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and BMW Z3
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36175, longitude -2.30248, in the DY12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wribbenhall & Arley, Wyre Forest, DY12 1PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422D403049
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4195
- 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
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
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 2015.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4195 in Wyre Forest, 20 February 2015
At the same spotRef 201522D500779
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B4195 in Wyre Forest, 10 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200322DD30637
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B4195 in Wyre Forest, 21 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200322DD31011
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on the B4195 in Wyre Forest, 23 July 2010
At the same spotRef 201022D003743
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 21 February 2009
At the same spotRef 200922D901055
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B4195 in Wyre Forest, 24 June 2012
At the same spotRef 201222D202555
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: BMW Z3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,793 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW Z3)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201422D403049 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.