A4113 crash in Herefordshire on 31 March 1998 at 07:45 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A Nissan Bluebird and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A4113 in Herefordshire at 07:45 on Tuesday 31 March 1998. The 50-year-old male driver of the Nissan Bluebird and the 63-year-old male driver of the lorry were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 1998
- Tuesday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Bluebird and lorry
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34862, longitude -2.89503, in the SY7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822EM01116
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4113
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4530
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
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Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A4113 in Herefordshire, 12 April 1992
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Rover 600 Series crash on the A4113 in Herefordshire, 28 January 2003
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 63, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 2 (Lorry)
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 199822EM01116 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.