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Serious A465 crash in Herefordshire on 28 February 1997 at 23:40 involving a Ford Sierra taxi

A Ford Sierra taxi crashed on the A465 in Herefordshire at 23:40 on Friday 28 February 1997. A 28-year-old female passenger was seriously 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
Serious
Date
28 Feb 1997
Friday, 23:40
Vehicles
1
Ford Sierra
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04444, longitude -2.72899, in the HR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford.

Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199722EN01025
Council area
Herefordshire
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
465
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 2001.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra

    Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    46 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 28, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 199722EN01025 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 1997.