A449 crash in Malvern Hills on 7 October 2023 at 11:35 involving a Cupra Formentor
A Cupra Formentor and a Lexmoto ZSB motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A449 in Malvern Hills at 11:35 on Saturday 7 October 2023. The 51-year-old male rider of the Lexmoto ZSB motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2023
- Saturday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Cupra Formentor and Lexmoto ZSB
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1571, longitude -2.2703, in the WR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Collett's Green.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023221364295
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 449
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
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 slight injury crash on 13 December 2018.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 13 December 2018
6 m awayRef 2018220820843
Slight
Datsun Micra crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 6 July 1995
7 m awayRef 199522CM08545
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 27 July 1988
7 m awayRef 1988220307084
Slight
Porsche Cayenne crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 2 March 2004
7 m awayRef 200422CC39849
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 6 June 1994
7 m awayRef 199422CX07956
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 21 March 1996
7 m awayRef 199622CU03819
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Cupra Formentor
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Lexmoto ZSB
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Lexmoto ZSB)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2023221364295 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.