A443 crash in Malvern Hills on 17 September 2013 at 05:19 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A443 in Malvern Hills at 05:19 on Tuesday 17 September 2013. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2013
- Tuesday, 05:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31836, longitude -2.52327, in the WR15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201322C303403
- 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
- 443
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 October 2013.
Serious
Rover 75 crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 18 October 2013
10 m awayRef 201322C303814
Slight
Car crash on the A443 in Herefordshire, 28 November 1980
10 m awayRef 1980220111066
Slight
Lorry crash on the A443 in Herefordshire, 15 April 1991
20 m awayRef 1991220604011
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A456 in the Malvern Hills, 15 February 2004
28 m awayRef 200422CC39793
Slight
Car crash on the A443 in Herefordshire, 23 November 1992
30 m awayRef 1992220611016
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 31 December 2008
30 m awayRef 200822C900199
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 201322C303403 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 2013.