A4440 crash in Malvern Hills on 30 July 2008 at 15:53 involving a Ford Focus
A car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A4440 in Malvern Hills at 15:53 on Wednesday 30 July 2008. The 57-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2008
- Wednesday, 15:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16635, longitude -2.23785, 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
- 200822CA88533
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 1995.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 11 December 1995
22 m awayRef 199522CM16572
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 10 November 2008
45 m awayRef 200822CA00190
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 17 July 1997
51 m awayRef 199722CD04627
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 5 August 2000
57 m awayRef 200022CC18312
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A422 in the Malvern Hills, 1 May 1993
71 m awayRef 1993220405015
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 19 November 2004
86 m awayRef 200422CC44650
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, 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 200822CA88533 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.