A449 crash in Malvern Hills on 7 December 2006 at 15:50 involving a Renault Megane
Two Renault Meganes were involved in a crash on the A449 in Malvern Hills at 15:50 on Thursday 7 December 2006. The 37-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 55-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2006
- Thursday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13609, longitude -2.29949, in the WR13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Link, Malvern Hills, WR14 1YE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200622CA85127
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 449
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 29 September 2015.
Serious
Volvo XC60 crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 29 September 2015
At the same spotRef 201522C503700
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 30 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201422C401206
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 6 February 1980
At the same spotRef 1980220502015
Serious
Car crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 3 June 1983
At the same spotRef 1983220306018
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 14 January 2005
At the same spotRef 200522CC45683
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 8 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201522C500153
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
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 200622CA85127 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.