A456 crash in Malvern Hills on 13 July 2020 at 19:43 involving a Ford Ka+
A Ford Ka+ and a Renault Trucks lorry were involved in a crash on the A456 in Malvern Hills at 19:43 on Monday 13 July 2020. The 48-year-old male driver of the Ford Ka+ was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 2020
- Monday, 19:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Ka+ and Renault Trucks
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.32025, longitude -2.52565, in the WR15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020220964493
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 456
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 May 1998.
Serious
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the A456 in the Malvern Hills, 2 May 1998
6 m awayRef 199822AD01660
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A456 in the Malvern Hills, 21 June 1998
6 m awayRef 199822AE02604
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A456 in Herefordshire, 31 July 1981
13 m awayRef 1981220107078
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A456 in the Malvern Hills, 16 February 2014
59 m awayRef 201422C400682
Serious
Volkswagen Crafter crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 28 October 2022
60 m awayRef 2022221237785
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A456 in the Malvern Hills, 15 August 2000
104 m awayRef 200022AD15005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Ka+
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,777 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Ka+)
- 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 2020220964493 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 2020.