Serious A49 crash in Herefordshire on 24 January 2001 at 18:00 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 hit a pedestrian on the A49 in Herefordshire at 18:00 on Wednesday 24 January 2001. A 73-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jan 2001
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07105, longitude -2.7223, in the HR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Widemarsh, Herefordshire, HR4 9SW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200122EA16031
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 49
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 28 October 1979
At the same spotRef 1979220510067
Serious
Lorry crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 25 October 2022
7 m awayRef 2022221236425
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 31 May 2000
10 m awayRef 200022EA13619
Serious
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 7 January 2008
14 m awayRef 200822EA86895
Slight
Car crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 13 January 1989
14 m awayRef 1989220501017
Serious
Leyland crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 1 March 1991
22 m awayRef 1991220503006
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200122EA16031 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 2001.