Unclassified road crash in Malvern Hills WR2 on 16 December 2025 at 06:00 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van crashed on an unclassified road in Malvern Hills at 06:00 on Tuesday 16 December 2025. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20324, longitude -2.28738, in the WR2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025221683604
- 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
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 52 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 1988.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 6 December 1988
52 m awayRef 1988220312013
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 3 June 1981
239 m awayRef 1981220306013
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 20 January 1985
239 m awayRef 1985220301050
Slight
Bedford Astra crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 15 February 1991
240 m awayRef 1991220402023
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 23 August 1986
246 m awayRef 1986220308046
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 22 June 2005
253 m awayRef 200522CC48803
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 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
SlightMale, aged 40, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Custom)
- 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 2025221683604 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.