B4348 crash in Herefordshire on 16 August 1993 at 18:20 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford Orion were involved in a crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire at 18:20 on Monday 16 August 1993. The 73-year-old male driver of the Ford Orion was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 1993
- Monday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02314, longitude -2.92014, in the HR2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993220508019
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4348
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 1998.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 2 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199822EW01607
Slight
Car crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 12 December 1982
20 m awayRef 1982220512028
Slight
Car crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 6 July 1981
36 m awayRef 1981220507032
Slight
Car crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 13 February 2023
36 m awayRef 2023221281828
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 4 December 2011
40 m awayRef 201122E105273
Serious
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 11 June 2011
73 m awayRef 201122E102357
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Orion)
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 1993220508019 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 1993.