A449 crash in Malvern Hills on 7 September 2010 at 03:45 involving a taxi
A taxi crashed on the A449 in Malvern Hills at 03:45 on Tuesday 7 September 2010. A 20-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2010
- Tuesday, 03:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16175, longitude -2.24718, in the WR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Powick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Powick & the Hanleys, Malvern Hills, WR2 4RU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201022C004440
- 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
- 449
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4424
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 June 2013.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 17 June 2013
10 m awayRef 201322C302083
Slight
Piaggio Fly crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 9 January 2009
10 m awayRef 200922C900274
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 6 June 1981
14 m awayRef 1981220506060
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 2 May 1995
20 m awayRef 199522CW05793
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 2 December 1995
20 m awayRef 199522CJ16569
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in Worcester, 13 August 1984
28 m awayRef 1984220308072
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201022C004440 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.