A443 crash in Malvern Hills on 4 December 2004 at 18:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A443 in Malvern Hills at 18:00 on Saturday 4 December 2004. The 46-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2004
- Saturday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27056, longitude -2.31007, in the WR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200422CC45156
- 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
- 443
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 1998.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 12 January 1998
10 m awayRef 199822AQ00107
Slight
Car crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 10 July 1987
14 m awayRef 1987220107026
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 17 December 1999
22 m awayRef 199922AD12997
Fatal
Porsche Taycan crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 13 January 2023
36 m awayRef 2023221264916
Slight
Car crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 27 October 1985
60 m awayRef 1985220110070
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 2 September 1995
100 m awayRef 199522AJ09393
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200422CC45156 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.