B4196 crash in Malvern Hills on 18 July 1998 at 16:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B4196 in Malvern Hills at 16:20 on Saturday 18 July 1998. The 48-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 1998
- Saturday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26763, longitude -2.2753, in the WR6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822AX03080
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4196
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 August 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the B4196 in the Malvern Hills, 25 August 1980
22 m awayRef 1980220308054
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Car crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 11 September 1983
224 m awayRef 1983220309053
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 18 April 1991
225 m awayRef 1991220404043
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4196 in the Malvern Hills, 5 November 2011
250 m awayRef 201122C104782
Slight
Car crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 23 February 1987
252 m awayRef 1987220302029
Slight
Car crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 8 March 1988
252 m awayRef 1988220303021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199822AX03080 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.