A449 crash in Malvern Hills on 20 May 2011 at 15:10 involving a Vauxhall Combo van
Four vehicles, including a car and a Vauxhall Combo van, were involved in a crash on the A449 in Malvern Hills at 15:10 on Friday 20 May 2011. The 57-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2011
- Friday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 4
- Vauxhall Combo and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12652, longitude -2.31666, in the WR14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Malvern. It is one of the crashes that make up the Link, Malvern Hills, WR14 1SY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201122C102045
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2004.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 10 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200422CC42672
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 10 January 1989
At the same spotRef 1989220301017
Slight
Taxi crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 19 May 2007
10 m awayRef 200722CA86581
Slight
Volvo 343 crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 9 October 1991
10 m awayRef 1991220410013
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 3 September 2001
10 m awayRef 200122CC24675
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 7 December 2008
10 m awayRef 200822CA00813
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 3: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 4: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
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 201122C102045 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 2011.