Unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY10 on 12 May 2017 at 16:00 involving a Mitsubishi Shogun
A Mitsubishi Shogun and a ridden horse were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 16:00 on Friday 12 May 2017. The 20-year-old female rider of the ridden horse was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2017
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Shogun and ridden horse
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39886, longitude -2.18206, in the DY10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blakedown.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220186548
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 135 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1995.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 29 December 1995
135 m awayRef 199522AJ13717
Slight
Car crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 19 October 1984
287 m awayRef 1984220110088
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 30 October 1990
308 m awayRef 1990220110039
Slight
MG MGB crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 15 February 1990
310 m awayRef 1990220102022
Serious
Car crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 27 October 1987
312 m awayRef 1987220110062
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 3 June 2007
314 m awayRef 200722DA86353
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Shogun
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ridden horse
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 20, horse rider, on vehicle 2 (Ridden horse)
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 2017220186548 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 2017.