Serious B4202 crash in Malvern Hills on 25 August 2010 at 14:40 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander crashed on the B4202 in Malvern Hills at 14:40 on Wednesday 25 August 2010. The 42-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Aug 2010
- Wednesday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36637, longitude -2.43396, in the DY14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201022C004237
- 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
- 4202
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4202 in Herefordshire, 31 July 1997
10 m awayRef 199722AR03650
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B4202 in Shropshire, 25 December 2002
32 m awayRef 200222AD22607
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the B4202 in the Malvern Hills, 17 June 2011
36 m awayRef 201122C103245
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the B4202 in the Malvern Hills, 5 December 2025
68 m awayRef 2025221680047
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B4202 in the Malvern Hills, 22 December 2010
113 m awayRef 201022C006331
Slight
Car crash on the B4202 in Herefordshire, 1 November 1985
340 m awayRef 1985220111002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
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 201022C004237 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 2010.