B4196 crash in Malvern Hills on 31 July 2014 at 08:10 involving a lorry
Two lorries were involved in a crash on the B4196 in Malvern Hills at 08:10 on Thursday 31 July 2014. The 49-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2014
- Thursday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28401, longitude -2.28876, in the WR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422D402789
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4196
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 2017.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4196 in the Malvern Hills, 22 June 2017
5 m awayRef 2017220195920
Serious
Car crash on the B4196 in the Malvern Hills, 17 June 1984
10 m awayRef 1984220106060
Slight
Car crash on the B4196 in the Malvern Hills, 10 March 1984
10 m awayRef 1984220103036
Fatal
Suzuki crash on the B4196 in the Malvern Hills, 25 August 1993
10 m awayRef 1993220108025
Slight
Car crash on the B4196 in the Malvern Hills, 1 December 1983
20 m awayRef 1983220112001
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4196 in the Malvern Hills, 7 September 2003
22 m awayRef 200322CC36359
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 2 (Lorry)
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 201422D402789 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 2014.