A456 crash in Wyre Forest on 26 May 2015 at 01:40 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 crashed on the A456 in Wyre Forest at 01:40 on Tuesday 26 May 2015. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 2015
- Tuesday, 01:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40789, longitude -2.17209, 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
- 201522D502746
- 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
- 456
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 10 December 2014.
Fatal
Honda Jazz crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 10 December 2014
At the same spotRef 201422D404658
Fatal
Car crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 31 August 1982
10 m awayRef 1982220108080
Fatal
Car crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 20 July 1982
10 m awayRef 1982220107031
Slight
Car crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 12 July 1980
14 m awayRef 1980220107031
Slight
Hyundai i30 crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 26 January 2023
40 m awayRef 2023221271294
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 31 January 2000
61 m awayRef 200022AB13429
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
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 201522D502746 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.