A4440 crash in Malvern Hills on 13 December 2007 at 06:32 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia crashed on the A4440 in Malvern Hills at 06:32 on Thursday 13 December 2007. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 06:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16912, longitude -2.24795, in the WR2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lower Wick & Pitmaston, Worcester, WR2 4BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722CA87273
- 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
- 4440
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 May 2015.
Serious
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 22 May 2015
At the same spotRef 201522C502091
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 13 December 2007
14 m awayRef 200722CA87272
Slight
Volvo XC60 crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 9 July 2021
66 m awayRef 2021221068370
Serious
BMW R 1200 crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 10 September 2020
113 m awayRef 2020220979990
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 11 October 2015
153 m awayRef 201522C503987
Slight
BMW Z4 crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 25 August 2008
192 m awayRef 200822CA88654
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
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 200722CA87273 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 2007.