A449 crash in Herefordshire on 26 April 2003 at 13:45 involving a Daihatsu Grand Move
A Daihatsu Grand Move crashed on the A449 in Herefordshire at 13:45 on Saturday 26 April 2003. The 82-year-old male driver and a 75-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 2003
- Saturday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Daihatsu Grand Move
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92969, longitude -2.56237, in the HR9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ross North, Herefordshire, HR9 7US area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322EC24476
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 449
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 50
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 2015.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A449 in Herefordshire, 8 February 2015
10 m awayRef 201522E500605
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A449 in Herefordshire, 16 August 2010
14 m awayRef 201022E004097
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on the A40 in Herefordshire, 18 August 1996
22 m awayRef 199622EW06092
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A40 in Herefordshire, 31 August 1997
22 m awayRef 199722EG03894
Slight
Car crash on the A449 in Herefordshire, 21 May 1983
22 m awayRef 1983220505047
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A449 in Herefordshire, 14 October 2009
22 m awayRef 200922E905712
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Daihatsu Grand Move
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daihatsu Grand Move)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daihatsu Grand Move)
- 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 200322EC24476 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.