B4218 crash in Malvern Hills on 19 July 2008 at 11:30 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series, a Ford Focus and a Volkswagen 1000 van were involved in a crash on the B4218 in Malvern Hills at 11:30 on Saturday 19 July 2008. The 47-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 2008
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Rover 200 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09346, longitude -2.33715, 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
- 200822CA88444
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1992.
Slight
Hillman Avenger crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 11 March 1992
14 m awayRef 1992220403026
Slight
Iveco Eurocargo crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 11 July 2022
33 m awayRef 2022221197232
Slight
Car crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 10 March 1984
60 m awayRef 1984220303016
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 1 December 1991
92 m awayRef 1991220412004
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 7 July 2007
124 m awayRef 200722CA86353
Slight
Car crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 26 November 1984
130 m awayRef 1984220311067
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen 1000
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 200822CA88444 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.