Serious B4218 crash in Herefordshire on 27 March 2001 at 16:10 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra hit a pedestrian on the B4218 in Herefordshire at 16:10 on Tuesday 27 March 2001. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Mar 2001
- Tuesday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07901, longitude -2.36127, in the WR13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200122ED16581
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4218
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 12 April 1984
20 m awayRef 1984220304025
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 16 July 1985
78 m awayRef 1985220307067
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 12 March 1990
81 m awayRef 1990220303020
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4218 in Herefordshire, 14 July 2000
100 m awayRef 200022ED14054
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4218 in Herefordshire, 16 January 2009
114 m awayRef 200922E900337
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the B4218 in Herefordshire, 22 December 2006
136 m awayRef 200622EA85241
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200122ED16581 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.