Serious B4503 crash in Malvern Hills on 28 December 1995 at 20:00 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the B4503 in Malvern Hills at 20:00 on Thursday 28 December 1995. There were five casualties: two people were seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 1995
- Thursday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 5
- 2 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.14477, longitude -2.32875, in the WR14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199522CM17101
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4503
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1990.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B4503 in the Malvern Hills, 29 March 1990
At the same spotRef 1990220303039
Slight
Car crash on the B4503 in the Malvern Hills, 5 January 1983
14 m awayRef 1983220301035
Slight
Car crash on the B4503 in the Malvern Hills, 7 April 1989
22 m awayRef 1989220304017
Slight
Car crash on the B4503 in the Malvern Hills, 31 January 1988
22 m awayRef 1988220301063
Slight
Car crash on the B4503 in the Malvern Hills, 15 October 1980
32 m awayRef 1980220510074
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4503 in the Malvern Hills, 29 September 1987
45 m awayRef 1987220309083
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 199522CM17101 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 1995.