A4112 crash in Malvern Hills on 10 April 1998 at 21:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on the A4112 in Malvern Hills at 21:10 on Friday 10 April 1998. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Apr 1998
- Friday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31095, longitude -2.5943, in the WR15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tenbury Wells.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822AP01348
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4112
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 October 2019.
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A4112 in the Malvern Hills, 13 October 2019
8 m awayRef 2019220895922
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 29 January 1987
10 m awayRef 1987220501042
Slight
Van crash on the A4112 in the Malvern Hills, 1 December 2008
14 m awayRef 200822CA00627
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 21 June 1986
14 m awayRef 1986220506043
Fatal
Audi 100 crash on the A4112 in the Malvern Hills, 27 March 2002
14 m awayRef 200222AD20144
Slight
Car crash on the A4112 in Herefordshire, 2 March 1979
36 m awayRef 1979220103014
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 199822AP01348 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.