B4218 crash in Malvern Hills on 16 August 2006 at 23:45 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B4218 in Malvern Hills at 23:45 on Wednesday 16 August 2006. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2006
- Wednesday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09472, longitude -2.33658, in the WR14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Malvern.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200622CA55114
- 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
- 4218
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 27 September 1986
10 m awayRef 1986220309072
Slight
Car crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 6 September 2000
22 m awayRef 200022CC19305
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 26 May 1989
22 m awayRef 1989220305043
Slight
Car crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 26 November 1984
22 m awayRef 1984220311067
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 25 July 1996
32 m awayRef 199622CZ08763
Slight
Car crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 8 June 1979
50 m awayRef 1979220506017
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200622CA55114 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 2006.