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Serious A443 crash in Malvern Hills on 16 November 1997 at 16:44 involving a Dodge lorry

A Dodge lorry hit a pedestrian on the A443 in Malvern Hills at 16:44 on Sunday 16 November 1997. A 45-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Nov 1997
Sunday, 16:44
Vehicles
1
Dodge
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21293, longitude -2.24993, in the WR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester.

Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199722CV07172
Council area
Malvern Hills
Police force
West Mercia
Highway authority
Worcestershire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
443
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 1990.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Dodge

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Towing and articulation
    Single trailer
    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    25 years
    Engine capacity
    3,860 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    11 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Dodge)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

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 199722CV07172 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.