Unclassified road crash in Worcester WR3 on 29 October 2016 at 05:58 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on an unclassified road in Worcester at 05:58 on Saturday 29 October 2016. The 46-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2016
- Saturday, 05:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20095, longitude -2.21598, in the WR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rainbow Hill, Worcester, WR4 9SE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016220124601
- 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
- 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, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2001.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 12 June 2001
81 m awayRef 200122CA23184
Slight
Honda PA50VC crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 19 June 1991
112 m awayRef 1991220406062
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 2 August 1986
127 m awayRef 1986220308010
Serious
Peugeot Expert crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 6 November 2014
131 m awayRef 201422C404438
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 27 May 1995
132 m awayRef 199522CF06791
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 3 April 1989
137 m awayRef 1989220304008
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016220124601 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 2016.