A449 crash in Malvern Hills on 24 September 2012 at 09:45 involving an Isuzu Trucks Forward lorry
An Isuzu Trucks Forward lorry and a Toyota Landcruiser were involved in a crash on the A449 in Malvern Hills at 09:45 on Monday 24 September 2012. The 51-year-old male driver of the Isuzu Trucks Forward lorry and the 64-year-old male driver of the Toyota Landcruiser were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 2012
- Monday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Isuzu Trucks Forward and Toyota Landcruiser
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13834, longitude -2.29921, in the WR13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Link, Malvern Hills, WR14 1YE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222C203890
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 24 June 1987
At the same spotRef 1987220306083
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 8 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200022CC19362
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 21 November 2017
14 m awayRef 2017220242509
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 16 February 2002
14 m awayRef 200222CC27257
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 3 July 2011
14 m awayRef 201122C102926
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 29 April 1990
14 m awayRef 1990220304075
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Isuzu Trucks Forward
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,193 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Landcruiser
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,982 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Isuzu Trucks Forward)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Landcruiser)
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 201222C203890 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 2012.