A49 crash in Herefordshire on 17 December 2003 at 18:12 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the A49 in Herefordshire at 18:12 on Wednesday 17 December 2003. The 27-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2003
- Wednesday, 18:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09484, longitude -2.72925, in the HR4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322EB26907
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 December 2020.
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 29 December 2020
6 m awayRef 2020221014234
Serious
Car crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 17 September 1982
10 m awayRef 1982220509050
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 18 October 1998
14 m awayRef 199822EA03681
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 28 March 2023
18 m awayRef 2023221291843
Serious
Car crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 24 August 1986
20 m awayRef 1986220508044
Serious
Hyundai Getz crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 17 February 2005
22 m awayRef 200522EB31479
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, 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 200322EB26907 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.