Serious A49 crash in Herefordshire on 2 December 2003 at 03:47 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the A49 in Herefordshire at 03:47 on Tuesday 2 December 2003. The 49-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Dec 2003
- Tuesday, 03:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06479, longitude -2.71797, 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
- 200322EA26717
- 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
- 30 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 2003.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 31 December 2003
14 m awayRef 200322EA27038
Slight
Van crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 12 May 1986
20 m awayRef 1986220505032
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 21 January 1995
28 m awayRef 199522EX00757
Serious
MG MGF crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 1 April 2010
28 m awayRef 201022E001717
Serious
Car crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 31 March 1984
45 m awayRef 1984220503031
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 20 May 1997
45 m awayRef 199722EU02318
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 200322EA26717 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 2003.