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During the [[The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership#Accidents | BR era]], the unmanned crossing was the site of two separate fatal collisions:<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Smith(1968)]] p. 57.</ref>
*On 26 August 1947 a car was struck by a northbound goods train resulting in the death of two passengers in the car, a Bromsgrove woman and her four year old daughter. At the inquest the car driver claimed he was not aware that he was crossing a railway line; warning notices in Northwood Lane were proved to have been obscured. Train crews also testified that their visibility of the crossing was very limited due to the bend in the track.
*On 28 August 1964 a car was struck by [[GWR Large Prairie 4150|Large Prairie]] no 4175 which was running bunker first, returning a train of empty wagons to Alveley Colliery sidings. Two car passengers also lost their lives in this accident. The prominent warning notices installed in Northwood Lane after the first accident had been ignored; a possible factor was that passenger services had ended a year earlier and by that time only one or two freight trains per day were using the line.
==Preservation==
