A38 crash in Malvern Hills on 19 September 2013 at 15:35 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A38 in Malvern Hills at 15:35 on Thursday 19 September 2013. The 52-year-old female driver of the BMW 1 Series and a 73-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 2013
- Thursday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13583, longitude -2.21548, in the WR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kempsey.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201322C303447
- 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
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 1993.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A38 in the Malvern Hills, 24 August 1993
32 m awayRef 1993220408035
Serious
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A38 in the Malvern Hills, 15 May 1997
32 m awayRef 199722CV02917
Fatal
ERF crash on the A38 in the Malvern Hills, 9 June 1999
102 m awayRef 199922CM02818
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 7 December 2014
110 m awayRef 201422C404589
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in the Malvern Hills, 11 December 1989
110 m awayRef 1989220312042
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in the Malvern Hills, 2 April 1986
114 m awayRef 1986220304006
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201322C303447 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.