A44 crash in Herefordshire on 31 December 2003 at 10:10 involving a Ford Puma
A Ford Puma crashed on the A44 in Herefordshire at 10:10 on Wednesday 31 December 2003. The 50-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2003
- Wednesday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Puma
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20425, longitude -2.9564, in the HR5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322EH27039
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 25 August 1994.
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 25 August 1994
At the same spotRef 199422EW08323
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 26 October 2002
10 m awayRef 200222EH22733
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 13 August 1990
10 m awayRef 1990220508061
Slight
Nissan Cabstar crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 26 February 2002
20 m awayRef 200222EH20120
Fatal
Citroen C2 crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 20 October 2007
20 m awayRef 200722EA86575
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 25 September 2001
22 m awayRef 200122EH18466
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,679 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Puma)
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 200322EH27039 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.