Serious A422 crash in Wychavon on 20 November 2022 at 21:04 involving a Nissan X-Trail
A Nissan X-Trail and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A422 in Wychavon at 21:04 on Sunday 20 November 2022. The 36-year-old male driver of the Nissan X-Trail was seriously injured and a 14-year-old female passenger in the Nissan X-Trail was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Nov 2022
- Sunday, 21:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan X-Trail and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18741, longitude -2.11304, in the WR7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022221244545
- Council area
- Wychavon
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 422
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A422 in Wychavon, 16 May 1986
3 m awayRef 1986220305031
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A422 in Wychavon, 4 December 2022
22 m awayRef 2022221249985
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A422 in Wychavon, 4 May 2001
31 m awayRef 200122CC22495
Serious
Leyland Scotstoun crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon, 28 February 1991
34 m awayRef 1991220402044
Serious
Car crash on the A422 in Wychavon, 15 June 1982
39 m awayRef 1982220306039
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A422 in Wychavon, 20 June 1986
45 m awayRef 1986220306038
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan X-Trail
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,184 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan X-Trail)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan X-Trail)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2022221244545 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 2022.