A451 crash in Wyre Forest on 30 September 2025 at 11:00 involving a Ford Focus
Two Ford Focus cars were involved in a crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest at 11:00 on Tuesday 30 September 2025. The 53-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 21-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were 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
- 30 Sep 2025
- Tuesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36334, longitude -2.26649, in the DY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kidderminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Foley Park & Hoobrook, Wyre Forest, DY11 7BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025221648659
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 451
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2007.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 31 May 2007
4 m awayRef 200722DA86325
Slight
Yamaha XJ6 crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 11 November 2011
4 m awayRef 201122D104871
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 8 April 2005
4 m awayRef 200522DC44010
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 4 November 2004
4 m awayRef 200422DC41225
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 8 December 2019
5 m awayRef 2019220908318
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 13 April 2017
6 m awayRef 2017220177283
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025221648659 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre Forest road accident statistics for 2025.