Unclassified road crash in Worcester WR4 on 13 March 2015 at 19:40 involving a Skoda Superb
Four vehicles, including a Skoda Superb and a Dacia Sandero, were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worcester at 19:40 on Friday 13 March 2015. A 36-year-old male passenger in the Audi A4 and the 42-year-old male driver of the Audi A4 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 2015
- Friday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 4
- Skoda Superb and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21314, longitude -2.18876, in the WR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Warndon & Elbury Park, Worcester, WR4 9XU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201522C500950
- Council area
- Worcester
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 23 September 1982
At the same spotRef 1982220309066
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 22 October 2008
54 m awayRef 200822CA88978
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 22 April 1985
57 m awayRef 1985220304034
Serious
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 29 May 1990
57 m awayRef 1990220305076
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 14 May 1988
58 m awayRef 1988220305027
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 23 May 1986
76 m awayRef 1986220305078
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Superb
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Dacia Sandero
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 898 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 4: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Audi A4)
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 201522C500950 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worcester road accident statistics for 2015.