B4197 crash in Malvern Hills on 24 February 1998 at 08:20 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 crashed on the B4197 in Malvern Hills at 08:20 on Tuesday 24 February 1998. The 33-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 1998
- Tuesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26982, longitude -2.36119, in the WR6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822AN00703
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4197
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Rascal crash on the B4194 in Wyre Forest, 17 July 2001
14 m awayRef 200122AD17712
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4197 in the Malvern Hills, 13 August 2010
14 m awayRef 201022C004147
Fatal
Car crash on the B4197 in the Malvern Hills, 28 September 1985
20 m awayRef 1985220109057
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4197 in the Malvern Hills, 10 July 1983
20 m awayRef 1983220107023
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on the B4197 in the Malvern Hills, 28 November 1996
41 m awayRef 199622AC08122
Serious
Van crash on the B4197 in the Malvern Hills, 19 November 1982
41 m awayRef 1982220111044
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
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 199822AN00703 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 1998.