Serious B4348 crash in Herefordshire on 19 September 2001 at 07:45 involving a Mazda 121
A Mazda 121 crashed on the B4348 in Herefordshire at 07:45 on Wednesday 19 September 2001. A 16-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and a 16-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Sep 2001
- Wednesday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 121
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02616, longitude -2.93146, 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
- 200122EB18359
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4348
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 1990.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 10 March 1990
22 m awayRef 1990220503015
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 25 June 2024
32 m awayRef 2024221461279
Slight
Car crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 10 January 1988
148 m awayRef 1988220501007
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 15 January 2018
165 m awayRef 2018220278498
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 28 February 2013
170 m awayRef 201322E301218
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 6 October 1994
179 m awayRef 199422EH09944
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 121
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,324 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 121)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 121)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200122EB18359 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.