B4220 crash in Malvern Hills on 2 December 1979 at 10:50 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4220 in Malvern Hills at 10:50 on Sunday 2 December 1979. The 22-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 1979
- Sunday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08792, longitude -2.44714, in the HR8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979220512016
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4220
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2003.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4220 in Herefordshire, 10 June 2003
61 m awayRef 200322ED24919
Slight
Peugeot 806 crash on the B4220 in Herefordshire, 1 August 2007
71 m awayRef 200722EA86206
Slight
Car crash on the B4214 in the Malvern Hills, 6 November 1982
82 m awayRef 1982220511004
Slight
Car crash on the B4220 in the Malvern Hills, 21 September 1985
92 m awayRef 1985220309059
Slight
Van crash on the B4220 in the Malvern Hills, 25 April 1987
120 m awayRef 1987220304081
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4220 in Herefordshire, 8 November 2001
141 m awayRef 200122ED19067
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 22, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1979220512016 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Malvern Hills road accident statistics for 1979.