Serious B4208 crash in Malvern Hills on 21 March 2002 at 13:10 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier, a Ford Escort and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the B4208 in Malvern Hills at 13:10 on Thursday 21 March 2002. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Mar 2002
- Thursday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Cavalier and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10344, longitude -2.30555, in the WR14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Malvern. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnards Green, Malvern Hills, WR14 3PQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200222CC27828
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 2008.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 2 July 2008
10 m awayRef 200822FA88344
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 23 March 1995
10 m awayRef 199522CC03545
Serious
Car crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 7 December 1987
10 m awayRef 1987220312003
Slight
Renault Kadjar crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 19 March 2021
11 m awayRef 2021221033589
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 7 July 1999
14 m awayRef 199922CC10048
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 27 April 2015
14 m awayRef 201522C501487
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Transit)
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 200222CC27828 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 2002.