A38 crash in Worcester on 14 January 2019 at 19:45 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on the A38 in Worcester at 19:45 on Monday 14 January 2019. A 21-year-old female passenger in the Fiat 500 and the 51-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jan 2019
- Monday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16295, longitude -2.21623, in the WR5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Peter's Parish, Worcester, WR5 3SS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019220354874
- Council area
- Worcester
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4440
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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in the Malvern Hills, 20 September 1984
6 m awayRef 1984220309047
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Worcester, 31 October 1989
6 m awayRef 1989220310073
Serious
Jaguar XF Series crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 14 May 2017
11 m awayRef 2017220183267
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A38 in Worcester, 14 July 1999
13 m awayRef 199922CA10283
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A38 in Worcester, 1 July 2011
16 m awayRef 201122C102705
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 10 February 2012
18 m awayRef 201222C200675
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- 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
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2019220354874 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 2019.