B4218 crash in Herefordshire on 15 October 2001 at 01:57 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra crashed on the B4218 in Herefordshire at 01:57 on Monday 15 October 2001. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2001
- Monday, 01:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07198, longitude -2.36632, 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
- 200122ED18579
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2003.
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 31 March 2003
61 m awayRef 200322ED24236
Slight
Car crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 7 March 1981
112 m awayRef 1981220503008
Slight
Car crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 9 July 1989
192 m awayRef 1989220307049
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 19 June 1994
232 m awayRef 199422ET05767
Slight
Skoda Yeti crash on the B4218 in Herefordshire, 22 September 2019
252 m awayRef 2019220882909
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 5 January 1983
273 m awayRef 1983220301018
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,235 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
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 200122ED18579 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.