B4399 crash in Herefordshire on 8 November 2004 at 17:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volvo 480 were involved in a crash on the B4399 in Herefordshire at 17:20 on Monday 8 November 2004. The 34-year-old male driver of the Volvo 480 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 2004
- Monday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volvo 480
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.01683, longitude -2.66212, in the HR2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200422EB30361
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4399
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 February 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4399 in Herefordshire, 23 February 2017
27 m awayRef 2017220164590
Serious
JCB crash on the B4399 in Herefordshire, 25 June 1996
81 m awayRef 199622EC04810
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the B4399 in Herefordshire, 18 December 2020
177 m awayRef 2020221008879
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4399 in Herefordshire, 15 October 1997
179 m awayRef 199722EN04636
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B4399 in Herefordshire, 26 July 1997
192 m awayRef 199722EZ03358
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 27 November 2005
200 m awayRef 200522EB34154
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 480
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo 480)
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 200422EB30361 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 2004.