M5 crash in Malvern Hills on 13 July 2013 at 07:00 involving a Renault Clio taxi
A Renault Clio taxi crashed on the M5 in Malvern Hills at 07:00 on Saturday 13 July 2013. The 21-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
- 13 Jul 2013
- Saturday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12066, longitude -2.19861, in the WR5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201322D302679
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 5
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 2015.
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the M5 in the Malvern Hills, 26 March 2015
10 m awayRef 201522C501127
Slight
Peugeot 5008 crash on the M5 in the Malvern Hills, 2 October 2016
13 m awayRef 2016220119283
Fatal
Car crash on the M5 in the Malvern Hills, 26 March 1989
20 m awayRef 1989220303040
Slight
Car crash on the M5 in the Malvern Hills, 29 December 1979
28 m awayRef 1979220312085
Slight
Car crash on the M5 in the Malvern Hills, 6 October 1989
30 m awayRef 1989220310010
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the M5 in the Malvern Hills, 3 June 1990
30 m awayRef 1990220306002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 201322D302679 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.