Serious B4208 crash in Malvern Hills on 14 November 2020 at 13:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4208 in Malvern Hills at 13:00 on Saturday 14 November 2020. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Nov 2020
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04742, longitude -2.31265, in the WR13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020220999889
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Wet or damp
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 November 1988.
Slight
Lorry crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 15 November 1988
6 m awayRef 1988220311032
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 25 July 1999
8 m awayRef 199922CC10354
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 26 August 1990
8 m awayRef 1990220308064
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 14 September 2013
17 m awayRef 201322C303243
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 12 May 1985
26 m awayRef 1985220305044
Slight
Volvo 244 crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 13 October 1994
26 m awayRef 199422CM14511
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020220999889 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.