Unclassified road crash in Malvern Hills WR13 on 15 August 2001 at 08:00 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Vauxhall Astramax van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Malvern Hills at 08:00 on Wednesday 15 August 2001. The 49-year-old female driver of the Rover 200 Series and the 30-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astramax van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a muddy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2001
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Vauxhall Astramax
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12315, longitude -2.29853, in the WR13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pickersleigh, Malvern Hills, WR14 2UW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200122CC24431
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Mud
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2020.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astramax
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,699 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astramax)
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 200122CC24431 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 2001.