Unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY11 on 24 December 2015 at 20:30 involving a Citroen Berlingo
A Citroen Berlingo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 20:30 on Thursday 24 December 2015. A 47-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Berlingo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36866, longitude -2.26532, in the DY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kidderminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Foley Park & Hoobrook, Wyre Forest, DY11 7BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015220042071
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 13 May 1996
19 m awayRef 199622AK03368
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 6 May 2015
32 m awayRef 201522D501729
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 17 February 2007
41 m awayRef 200722DA85723
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 28 April 1981
45 m awayRef 1981220104044
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 30 November 1998
68 m awayRef 199822AQ05397
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 10 August 2005
71 m awayRef 200522DC46417
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Berlingo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2015220042071 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 2015.