A44 crash in Malvern Hills on 7 November 1988 at 08:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A44 in Malvern Hills at 08:30 on Monday 7 November 1988. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 1988
- Monday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20012, longitude -2.57292, in the HR7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1988220511018
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 October 1992.
Serious
MAN/VW crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 2 October 1992
14 m awayRef 1992220610001
Slight
Peugeot Kisbee crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 3 April 2020
17 m awayRef 2020220945358
Slight
Kawasaki ER650 crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 13 July 2014
20 m awayRef 201422E402613
Slight
Car crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 25 May 1985
22 m awayRef 1985220505040
Slight
Mitsubishi L200 crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 11 May 2025
28 m awayRef 2025221588366
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 20 April 1999
32 m awayRef 199922ER01281
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1988220511018 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 1988.