A456 crash in Malvern Hills on 2 August 2016 at 06:40 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a car were involved in a crash on the A456 in Malvern Hills at 06:40 on Tuesday 2 August 2016. The 27-year-old male driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2016
- Tuesday, 06:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34393, longitude -2.42082, in the DY14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016220092900
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 456
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4202
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 October 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A456 in Herefordshire, 9 October 1980
2 m awayRef 1980220110010
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 7 August 1992
2 m awayRef 1992220108011
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 16 August 1992
2 m awayRef 1992220108014
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 14 April 1991
2 m awayRef 1991220104013
Fatal
Lexus CT 200 crash on the A456 in the Malvern Hills, 2 February 2018
2 m awayRef 2018220265712
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A456 in the Malvern Hills, 11 June 2025
6 m awayRef 2025221601753
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2016220092900 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 2016.