A449 crash in Malvern Hills on 1 April 2004 at 20:50 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A449 in Malvern Hills at 20:50 on Thursday 1 April 2004. The 29-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 2004
- Thursday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1295, longitude -2.31113, in the WR14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Malvern. It is one of the crashes that make up the Link, Malvern Hills, WR14 1SY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200422CC40341
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 449
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 12 July 2003.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 12 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200322CC35582
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 10 January 2023
6 m awayRef 2023221261702
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 25 June 1984
10 m awayRef 1984220306059
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 22 January 1995
10 m awayRef 199522CW01009
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 13 May 1994
10 m awayRef 199422CC06696
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 16 January 2003
10 m awayRef 200322CC33291
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 29, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200422CC40341 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 2004.