![]() August 1953: A learner driver, under instruction from Cecil Ward of Wickhamford, was driving towards Evesham when a car overtook them and collided with their car. ![]() His son’s head went through the windscreen. That car sped up and the driver of the overtaking car tried to pull in behind it but he hit a van coming over the hill in the opposite direction. One car, following a slower one going towards Broadway, overtook about 100 yds from the brow. June 1953: Three vehicles were involved in a collision near the crest of the hill.A few of the incidents reported in the local press in the 1950s were as follows: The A44 at Longdon Hill, Wickhamford, was a notorious place for accidents in the years after the Second World War, due to its steepness and narrowness. A reconstruction scheme will be included in the programme for 1969-70. This was in fact the first fatal accident since 1956. The Minister, Bob Brown, replied - We are aware of the fatal accident on 2nd September last. He asked the Minister of Transport whether he was aware of the growing number of road accidents on Longdon Hill, Worcestershire, on the A44, between Evesham and Broadway in his Parliamentary constituency of South Worcestershire and, in view of the difficult topography and the cost of approximately £200,000 for effective road safety reconstruction scheme, whether he will include this in the estimates for 1969. Sir Gerald Nabarro, M.P., asked a question in the House of Commons on 11th November 1968.
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