Serious A449 crash in Malvern Hills on 4 April 2023 at 07:20 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 crashed on the A449 in Malvern Hills at 07:20 on Tuesday 4 April 2023. The 18-year-old female driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Apr 2023
- Tuesday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13143, longitude -2.30817, in the WR14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Malvern. It is one of the crashes that make up the Link, Malvern Hills, WR14 1SY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023221294902
- 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
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 May 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 14 May 1981
2 m awayRef 1981220505021
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 1 October 2009
2 m awayRef 200922C905509
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 5 February 2012
8 m awayRef 201222C200705
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 25 July 1995
8 m awayRef 199522CF09643
Serious
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 17 July 2000
8 m awayRef 200022CC17926
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 21 January 1989
16 m awayRef 1989220301059
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2023221294902 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 2023.