A443 crash in Worcester on 12 April 2019 at 22:40 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 and an Audi S3 were involved in a crash on the A443 in Worcester at 22:40 on Friday 12 April 2019. The 18-year-old female driver of the Citroen C3 and a 21-year-old male passenger in the Audi S3 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 2019
- Friday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C3 and Audi S3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19859, longitude -2.23775, in the WR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cathedral, Worcester, WR1 3EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019220832243
- Council area
- Worcester
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 443
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 443
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 1991.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B4206 in Worcester, 20 September 1991
3 m awayRef 1991220409024
Slight
Van crash on the A443 in Worcester, 21 November 1988
3 m awayRef 1988220311083
Slight
Car crash on the A443 in Worcester, 10 October 1985
3 m awayRef 1985220310018
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A443 in Worcester, 21 September 1984
3 m awayRef 1984220309065
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A443 in Worcester, 6 March 2001
7 m awayRef 200122CA21556
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4206 in Worcester, 19 September 2016
10 m awayRef 2016220115329
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi S3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi S3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019220832243 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.