A449 crash in Malvern Hills on 12 November 2012 at 11:32 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A449 in Malvern Hills at 11:32 on Monday 12 November 2012. The 76-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2012
- Monday, 11:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1574, longitude -2.26236, in the WR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Collett's Green. 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
- 201222C204587
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 2 November 2000
14 m awayRef 200022CC19724
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 18 November 1993
14 m awayRef 1993220411033
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 1 August 2006
20 m awayRef 200622CA54903
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 15 October 2011
20 m awayRef 201122C104454
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 12 March 2005
20 m awayRef 200522CC46657
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 26 February 2013
22 m awayRef 201322C300772
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201222C204587 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.