Serious unclassified road crash in Malvern Hills WR8 on 30 April 2018 at 14:30 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Malvern Hills at 14:30 on Monday 30 April 2018. The 36-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Apr 2018
- Monday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05877, longitude -2.21577, in the WR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Upton upon Severn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Upton & Ripple, Malvern Hills, WR8 0HH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018220290385
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2000.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 12 May 2000
57 m awayRef 200022CC16872
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 3 June 1980
83 m awayRef 1980220506005
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 4 October 1985
87 m awayRef 1985220310032
Slight
Reliant Rialto crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 27 February 1996
97 m awayRef 199622CE02213
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 1 August 1997
97 m awayRef 199722CD04834
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 23 February 1989
97 m awayRef 1989220302061
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,668 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018220290385 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 2018.