B4196 crash in Malvern Hills on 7 March 2003 at 17:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4196 in Malvern Hills at 17:40 on Friday 7 March 2003. The 17-year-old male driver and a 14-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2003
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31925, longitude -2.29089, in the DY13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322AC23172
- 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
- 4196
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4194
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2010.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B4196 in the Malvern Hills, 17 March 2010
20 m awayRef 201022C001553
Slight
Car crash on the B4194 in the Malvern Hills, 25 July 1987
22 m awayRef 1987220107050
Slight
Car crash on the B4196 in Wyre Forest, 8 May 1987
28 m awayRef 1987220105018
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B4194 in the Malvern Hills, 27 August 1980
95 m awayRef 1980220108093
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the B4194 in the Malvern Hills, 17 February 2025
144 m awayRef 2025221555374
Slight
Fiat Seicento crash on the B4196 in the Malvern Hills, 6 March 2005
149 m awayRef 200522CC46600
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200322AC23172 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 2003.