A443 crash in Malvern Hills on 20 April 2008 at 08:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A443 in Malvern Hills at 08:40 on Sunday 20 April 2008. A 33-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 2008
- Sunday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30381, longitude -2.37791, 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
- 200822CA87989
- 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
- 443
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2004.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 14 November 2004
28 m awayRef 200422CC44594
Slight
Austin Morris Maxi crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 6 November 1997
36 m awayRef 199722AL05347
Serious
Lorry crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 14 November 1988
42 m awayRef 1988220111021
Slight
Car crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 1 February 1987
42 m awayRef 1987220102005
Slight
Opel crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 6 January 2003
45 m awayRef 200322AD22722
Slight
Car crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 5 November 1981
76 m awayRef 1981220111002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200822CA87989 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.