A450 crash in Wyre Forest on 6 February 2016 at 17:58 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Mitsubishi Outlander were involved in a crash on the A450 in Wyre Forest at 17:58 on Saturday 6 February 2016. A 22-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta and a 54-year-old female passenger in the Mitsubishi Outlander were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Feb 2016
- Saturday, 17:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Mitsubishi Outlander
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39919, longitude -2.15789, in the DY9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blakedown. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wyre Forest Rural, Wyre Forest, DY10 3LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016220052547
- 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
- 450
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4188
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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 2019.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A450 in Wyre Forest, 2 June 2019
2 m awayRef 2019220849258
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A450 in Wyre Forest, 15 April 2022
4 m awayRef 2022221168567
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A450 in Wyre Forest, 22 July 2021
5 m awayRef 2021221069279
Slight
Car crash on the A450 in Wyre Forest, 30 July 1986
6 m awayRef 1986220107059
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A450 in Wyre Forest, 30 May 1998
6 m awayRef 199822AJ02194
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B4188 in Wyre Forest, 1 February 2008
6 m awayRef 200822DE87913
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Outlander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Outlander)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016220052547 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 2016.