M50 crash in Malvern Hills on 1 May 2011 at 14:55 involving a car
A car crashed on the M50 in Malvern Hills at 14:55 on Sunday 1 May 2011. The 68-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 2011
- Sunday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.00188, longitude -2.25387, in the GL19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201122D101723
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 50
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2016.
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the M50 in the Malvern Hills, 12 October 2016
32 m awayRef 2016220121027
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M50 in the Malvern Hills, 31 May 1991
41 m awayRef 1991220405045
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M50 in the Malvern Hills, 27 July 2008
50 m awayRef 200822DA88784
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the M50 in the Malvern Hills, 22 August 2021
83 m awayRef 2021221079534
Fatal
Jeep Cherokee crash on the M50 in the Malvern Hills, 31 August 2020
137 m awayRef 2020220977189
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A438 in the Malvern Hills, 10 August 1997
140 m awayRef 199722CF05227
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201122D101723 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.