B4232 crash in Herefordshire on 7 September 2000 at 22:45 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Renault Espace were involved in a crash on the B4232 in Herefordshire at 22:45 on Thursday 7 September 2000. The 42-year-old male driver of the Renault Espace was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2000
- Thursday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Renault Espace
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07627, longitude -2.3433, in the WR13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200022ED14535
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4232
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 2004.
Slight
Toyota Starlet crash on the B4232 in Herefordshire, 25 February 2004
10 m awayRef 200422ED27755
Serious
Car crash on the B4232 in the Malvern Hills, 15 May 1983
10 m awayRef 1983220305032
Slight
Car crash on the B4232 in the Malvern Hills, 7 December 1988
100 m awayRef 1988220312011
Slight
Ford Capri crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 9 June 1992
246 m awayRef 1992220506007
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4232 in the Malvern Hills, 30 October 1983
250 m awayRef 1983220310020
Serious
Audi A6 crash on the B4232 in Herefordshire, 14 August 2025
364 m awayRef 2025221629030
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Espace
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Espace)
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 200022ED14535 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 2000.