A438 crash in Herefordshire on 24 December 1998 at 08:54 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A438 in Herefordshire at 08:54 on Thursday 24 December 1998. The 38-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1998
- Thursday, 08:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05945, longitude -2.61955, in the HR1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822EF04583
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 438
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2011.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 17 December 2011
10 m awayRef 201122E200187
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 1 January 2013
14 m awayRef 201322C300129
Slight
Renault 18 crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 19 September 1990
20 m awayRef 1990220509047
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 8 June 1990
22 m awayRef 1990220506009
Slight
Car crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 13 June 1987
41 m awayRef 1987220506043
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 21 January 1994
61 m awayRef 1994220501027
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199822EF04583 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 1998.