B4208 crash in Malvern Hills on 18 November 1997 at 08:15 involving a Ford Escort van
A Ford Escort van and a car were involved in a crash on the B4208 in Malvern Hills at 08:15 on Tuesday 18 November 1997. The 33-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 1997
- Tuesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10734, longitude -2.30658, in the WR14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Malvern.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199722CN07235
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4211
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 1992.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B4211 in the Malvern Hills, 11 September 1992
10 m awayRef 1992220409016
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 8 June 2004
10 m awayRef 200422CC41530
Slight
Car crash on the B4211 in the Malvern Hills, 11 January 1981
10 m awayRef 1981220501016
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 21 April 2003
14 m awayRef 200322CC34650
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 10 May 1993
14 m awayRef 1993220405027
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 19 March 1998
14 m awayRef 199822CA01220
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 199722CN07235 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.