Unclassified road crash in Wychavon WR9 on 3 October 2018 at 15:30 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wychavon at 15:30 on Wednesday 3 October 2018. A 4-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 3 Oct 2018
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29095, longitude -2.11752, in the WR9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wychbold. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dodderhill, Wychavon, WR9 7PY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018220333696
- Council area
- Wychavon
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 38
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, 23 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 October 1987.
Serious
Bus crash on the A38 in Wychavon, 1 October 1987
23 m awayRef 1987220210006
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Wychavon, 12 July 1984
23 m awayRef 1984220207054
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A38 in Wychavon, 27 July 2017
29 m awayRef 2017220230617
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A38 in Wychavon, 5 July 2010
34 m awayRef 201022C003390
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the A38 in Wychavon, 26 March 2012
40 m awayRef 201222C201440
Serious
JCB crash on the A38 in Wychavon, 14 July 1998
64 m awayRef 199822CA03405
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,992 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- 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 2018220333696 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.