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Serious unclassified road crash in Malvern Hills WR14 on 4 January 1997 at 00:40 involving a Toyota Hilux van

A Toyota Hilux van crashed on an unclassified road in Malvern Hills at 00:40 on Saturday 4 January 1997. The 19-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 Jan 1997
Saturday, 00:40
Vehicles
1
Toyota Hilux
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1108, longitude -2.28937, 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
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199722CP00060
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
60 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
Unclassified

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
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2007.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Toyota Hilux

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Entered ditch
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years
    Engine capacity
    2,446 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 19, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Hilux)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 17, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Hilux)

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 199722CP00060 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.