A449 crash in Malvern Hills on 22 September 2017 at 12:45 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van hit a pedestrian on the A449 in Malvern Hills at 12:45 on Friday 22 September 2017. A 53-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 2017
- Friday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.113, longitude -2.33012, in the WR14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Malvern. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Malvern, Malvern Hills, WR14 2HU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220225143
- 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
- 449
- 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
- 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, 15 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 December 1992.
Serious
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 19 December 1992
15 m awayRef 1992220412028
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 23 October 2003
15 m awayRef 200322CC37156
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 6 July 2000
25 m awayRef 200022CC17760
Slight
Mitsubishi Lancer crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 5 February 2015
27 m awayRef 201522C500554
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 28 February 2014
35 m awayRef 201422C400938
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 18 March 1988
35 m awayRef 1988220303027
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2017220225143 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 2017.