B4208 crash in Malvern Hills on 26 July 2015 at 04:16 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the B4208 in Malvern Hills at 04:16 on Sunday 26 July 2015. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2015
- Sunday, 04:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1202, longitude -2.30579, in the WR14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Malvern. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pickersleigh, Malvern Hills, WR14 2UW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201522C502584
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 30 April 1999
10 m awayRef 199922CG01916
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 6 July 2003
22 m awayRef 200322CC35502
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 16 February 1997
42 m awayRef 199722CE00856
Slight
BMW X3 crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 23 July 2012
57 m awayRef 201222C202990
Slight
Honda C90 crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 21 February 1997
58 m awayRef 199722CV01008
Slight
Aprilia RS50 crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 15 November 2004
64 m awayRef 200422CC44644
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
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 201522C502584 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.