A46 crash in Wychavon on 27 January 2018 at 11:15 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper, a Suzuki Wagon R+ and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the A46 in Wychavon at 11:15 on Saturday 27 January 2018. A 76-year-old male passenger in the Suzuki Wagon R+ and a 21-year-old male passenger in the Suzuki Wagon R+ were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jan 2018
- Saturday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mini Cooper and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05817, longitude -1.9565, in the WR11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broadway, Sedgeberrow & Childswickham, Wychavon, WR11 2SW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018220262501
- Council area
- Wychavon
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 2023.
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 14 April 2023
1 m awayRef 2023221297286
Serious
Hyundai Accent crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 24 April 2025
4 m awayRef 2025221581553
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A435 in Wychavon, 14 February 1992
4 m awayRef 1992220302009
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 11 October 2006
4 m awayRef 200622CA56229
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 27 October 2008
6 m awayRef 200822CA88987
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 17 February 2000
10 m awayRef 200022CE15518
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Wagon R+
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Wagon R+)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Wagon R+)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018220262501 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wychavon road accident statistics for 2018.