Unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY13 on 7 October 2017 at 18:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 18:30 on Saturday 7 October 2017. The 26-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2017
- Saturday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.32781, longitude -2.28566, in the DY13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stourport-on-Severn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Areley Kings & Riverside, Wyre Forest, DY13 0LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220228598
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 July 1988.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 8 July 1988
5 m awayRef 1988220107034
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 10 November 1992
10 m awayRef 1992220111032
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 26 September 1985
15 m awayRef 1985220109073
Serious
Mazda 626 crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 16 August 2003
27 m awayRef 200322DD32554
Slight
Reliant Robin crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 26 June 2001
35 m awayRef 200122AC17505
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 13 February 1989
35 m awayRef 1989220102016
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2017220228598 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.