A449 crash in Malvern Hills on 29 December 2011 at 18:00 involving a Mini First
A Mini First and a Citroen C3 were involved in a crash on the A449 in Malvern Hills at 18:00 on Thursday 29 December 2011. The 53-year-old female driver of the Citroen C3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini First and Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16841, longitude -2.2421, 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
- 201122C200064
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 449
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4440
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 15 September 2014
At the same spotRef 201422C403454
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 16 December 2022
10 m awayRef 2022221255348
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 23 June 2006
10 m awayRef 200622CA54214
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 10 November 2007
10 m awayRef 200722CA87047
Slight
Volkswagen Urban crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 8 March 2010
10 m awayRef 201022C001253
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 27 December 2018
12 m awayRef 2018220353219
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini First
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C3)
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 201122C200064 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.