Serious A4137 crash in Herefordshire on 17 June 2001 at 12:30 involving a Skoda Felicia
A Skoda Felicia and a Nissan 100 were involved in a crash on the A4137 in Herefordshire at 12:30 on Sunday 17 June 2001. The 42-year-old male driver of the Skoda Felicia was seriously injured and the 38-year-old female driver of the Nissan 100 and a 37-year-old female passenger in the Nissan 100 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jun 2001
- Sunday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Felicia and Nissan 100
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8918, longitude -2.65548, in the HR9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200122EC17318
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4137
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 2011.
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the A4137 in Herefordshire, 7 November 2011
At the same spotRef 201122E104848
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4137 in Herefordshire, 20 February 1990
At the same spotRef 1990220502043
Slight
MAN crash on the A4137 in Herefordshire, 17 January 2017
3 m awayRef 2017220154217
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4137 in Herefordshire, 19 April 2023
4 m awayRef 2023221308291
Fatal
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4137 in Herefordshire, 18 October 2023
5 m awayRef 2023221369029
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4137 in Herefordshire, 11 August 2023
7 m awayRef 2023221342306
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Felicia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,289 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan 100
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Felicia)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan 100)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan 100)
- 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 200122EC17318 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.