A4149 crash in Herefordshire on 3 February 1981 at 06:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4149 in Herefordshire at 06:35 on Tuesday 3 February 1981. The 48-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 1981
- Tuesday, 06:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9203, longitude -2.57808, in the HR9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ross-on-Wye.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981220502002
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4149
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 2009.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1981220502002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Herefordshire road accident statistics for 1981.