Serious A4103 crash in Malvern Hills on 8 December 2008 at 01:30 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a DAF Trucks FTG 85CF lorry were involved in a crash on the A4103 in Malvern Hills at 01:30 on Monday 8 December 2008. The 41-year-old female driver of the Renault Megane was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 2008
- Monday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and DAF Trucks FTG 85CF
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.15501, longitude -2.31818, in the WR13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alfrick, Leigh & Rushwick, Malvern Hills, WR13 5FE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822CA00800
- 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
- 4103
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4103 in the Malvern Hills, 24 March 2011
10 m awayRef 201122C101210
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A4103 in the Malvern Hills, 3 July 2012
10 m awayRef 201222C202678
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4103 in Wychavon, 20 May 2011
10 m awayRef 201122C102056
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4103 in the Malvern Hills, 31 August 2002
10 m awayRef 200222CC30607
Slight
Audi TT crash on the A4103 in the Malvern Hills, 19 August 2014
10 m awayRef 201422C403099
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A4103 in the Malvern Hills, 15 December 1999
10 m awayRef 199922CC14185
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks FTG 85CF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 200822CA00800 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 2008.