B4202 crash in Malvern Hills on 8 November 1998 at 08:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B4202 in Malvern Hills at 08:10 on Sunday 8 November 1998. The 35-year-old male 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
- 8 Nov 1998
- Sunday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31094, longitude -2.38132, in the WR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822AP05212
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4202
- 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, 142 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 2011.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4202 in the Malvern Hills, 5 June 2011
142 m awayRef 201122C102359
Serious
Suzuki Carry crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 19 June 2006
142 m awayRef 200622CA54128
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4202 in the Malvern Hills, 30 September 1998
144 m awayRef 199822AL04427
Slight
Honda crash on the B4202 in Wychavon, 1 July 2008
164 m awayRef 200822CA88337
Slight
Lotus Elise crash on the B4202 in the Malvern Hills, 28 February 2007
172 m awayRef 200722CA85574
Serious
Volvo V40 crash on the B4202 in the Malvern Hills, 11 February 2000
178 m awayRef 200022AD13734
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 199822AP05212 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.