Serious A4440 crash in Malvern Hills on 12 September 2025 at 17:35 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a Vauxhall Cascada were involved in a crash on the A4440 in Malvern Hills at 17:35 on Friday 12 September 2025. The 50-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cascada was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Sep 2025
- Friday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and Vauxhall Cascada
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16799, longitude -2.24339, in the WR2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lower Wick & Pitmaston, Worcester, WR2 4BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025221644038
- 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
- 4440
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 449
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 2008.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A449 in the Malvern Hills, 20 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200822EA00505
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 1 April 2012
At the same spotRef 201222C201505
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 14 December 2008
At the same spotRef 200822C801010
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 10 July 2023
3 m awayRef 2023221328974
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 3 April 2023
3 m awayRef 2023221294277
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on the A4440 in the Malvern Hills, 13 April 2019
4 m awayRef 2019220832789
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cascada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cascada)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025221644038 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 2025.