B4203 crash in Malvern Hills on 27 November 1987 at 05:57 involving a van
A van crashed on the B4203 in Malvern Hills at 05:57 on Friday 27 November 1987. The 50-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 1987
- Friday, 05:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29244, longitude -2.37383, in the WR6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987220111050
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4203
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 70 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 November 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the B4203 in the Malvern Hills, 15 November 1982
70 m awayRef 1982220111022
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B4203 in the Malvern Hills, 22 October 2015
71 m awayRef 201522C504093
Slight
Lorry crash on the B4203 in the Malvern Hills, 16 June 1989
102 m awayRef 1989220106033
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4203 in the Malvern Hills, 11 February 2008
139 m awayRef 200822CA87648
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4203 in the Malvern Hills, 25 October 2011
206 m awayRef 201122C104583
Serious
Honda MSX125 crash on the B4203 in the Malvern Hills, 25 August 2025
245 m awayRef 2025221633599
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 1987220111050 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 1987.