B4193 crash in Wyre Forest on 26 August 2014 at 01:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Jaguar S Type were involved in a crash on the B4193 in Wyre Forest at 01:30 on Tuesday 26 August 2014. The 25-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 2014
- Tuesday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Jaguar S Type
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34062, longitude -2.26329, in the DY13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stourport-on-Severn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mitton, Wyre Forest, DY13 9NQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422D403240
- 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
- 4193
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4193 in Wyre Forest, 23 June 2008
14 m awayRef 200822DA88607
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the B4193 in Wyre Forest, 8 October 1980
14 m awayRef 1980220110014
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B4193 in Wyre Forest, 28 July 1990
14 m awayRef 1990220107057
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4193 in Wyre Forest, 4 November 2002
14 m awayRef 200222AC22120
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4193 in Wyre Forest, 28 May 1979
14 m awayRef 1979220105051
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the B4193 in Wyre Forest, 21 July 1999
14 m awayRef 199922AC10138
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Jaguar S Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 201422D403240 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.