Serious A465 crash in Herefordshire on 14 September 1999 at 18:35 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Peugeot 405 were involved in a crash on the A465 in Herefordshire at 18:35 on Tuesday 14 September 1999. The 54-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 405 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Sep 1999
- Tuesday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94238, longitude -2.88273, in the HR2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199922EB10796
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 465
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2021.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 23 December 2021
6 m awayRef 2021221134561
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 27 February 1992
10 m awayRef 1992220502033
Fatal
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 14 October 1983
14 m awayRef 1983220510005
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 9 December 1983
36 m awayRef 1983220512001
Serious
Yamaha R6 crash on the A456 in Herefordshire, 6 September 2003
41 m awayRef 200322EB25744
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 4 June 1980
51 m awayRef 1980220506006
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 405)
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 199922EB10796 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 1999.