Serious unclassified road crash in Malvern Hills WR14 on 27 June 1997 at 16:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in Malvern Hills at 16:00 on Friday 27 June 1997. A 13-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jun 1997
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.11803, longitude -2.31016, in the WR14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Malvern.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199722CB03935
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 1988.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4535 in the Malvern Hills, 18 March 1988
14 m awayRef 1988220303030
Serious
Car crash on the A4532 in the Malvern Hills, 27 May 1988
14 m awayRef 1988220305062
Slight
Audi 80 crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 2 August 2010
20 m awayRef 201022C003910
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 4 January 2001
28 m awayRef 200122CC20729
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4532 in the Malvern Hills, 8 October 1992
30 m awayRef 1992220410013
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 22 May 2003
41 m awayRef 200322CC34911
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- 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 199722CB03935 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 1997.