A443 crash in Malvern Hills on 2 August 2018 at 20:00 involving a Volkswagen Jetta
A Volkswagen Jetta and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A443 in Malvern Hills at 20:00 on Thursday 2 August 2018. The 48-year-old male cyclist 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
- 2 Aug 2018
- Thursday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Jetta and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22821, longitude -2.25684, in the WR2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018220317771
- 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
- 443
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 1999.
Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 25 June 1999
4 m awayRef 199922CK03138
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 8 June 2001
4 m awayRef 200122CC23159
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 24 April 1998
10 m awayRef 199822CF01869
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 4 August 1995
10 m awayRef 199522CV10323
Slight
Car crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 8 January 2019
13 m awayRef 2019220354502
Serious
Car crash on the A443 in the Malvern Hills, 14 June 1998
17 m awayRef 199822CC03131
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Jetta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 48, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2018220317771 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.