A422 crash in Malvern Hills on 1 May 1993 at 00:10 involving a Nissan Bluebird
Four vehicles, including a Nissan Bluebird and an Austin Montego, were involved in a crash on the A422 in Malvern Hills at 00:10 on Saturday 1 May 1993. The 45-year-old male driver of the Nissan Bluebird and the 57-year-old female driver of the Austin Montego were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 1993
- Saturday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 4
- Nissan Bluebird and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16684, longitude -2.23856, in the WR2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993220405015
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 422
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 August 2000.
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 5 August 2000
14 m awayRef 200022CC18312
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 19 November 2004
20 m awayRef 200422CC44650
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 11 December 1995
50 m awayRef 199522CM16572
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 28 March 2008
58 m awayRef 200822CA87854
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 20 October 2010
67 m awayRef 201022C005301
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 30 July 2008
71 m awayRef 200822CA88533
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 4: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Austin Montego)
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 1993220405015 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 1993.