Serious A4440 crash in Malvern Hills on 22 May 2015 at 11:35 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
A Volkswagen Sharan and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4440 in Malvern Hills at 11:35 on Friday 22 May 2015. The 54-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 May 2015
- Friday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Sharan and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16915, longitude -2.24793, in the WR2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lower Wick & Pitmaston, Worcester, WR2 4BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201522C502091
- 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
- 4440
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2007.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 13 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200722CA87273
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 13 December 2007
14 m awayRef 200722CA87272
Slight
Volvo XC60 crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 9 July 2021
66 m awayRef 2021221068370
Serious
BMW R 1200 crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 10 September 2020
113 m awayRef 2020220979990
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 11 October 2015
153 m awayRef 201522C503987
Slight
BMW Z4 crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 25 August 2008
192 m awayRef 200822CA88654
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 201522C502091 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 2015.