B4218 crash in Herefordshire on 16 April 2004 at 20:48 involving a Fiat Coupe
A Fiat Coupe and an Alfa Romeo 33 were involved in a crash on the B4218 in Herefordshire at 20:48 on Friday 16 April 2004. The 27-year-old female driver of the Alfa Romeo 33 and a 24-year-old male passenger in the Alfa Romeo 33 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2004
- Friday, 20:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Coupe and Alfa Romeo 33
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08533, longitude -2.35154, in the WR13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200422ED28201
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4218
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 1990.
Slight
Ford crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 24 January 1990
10 m awayRef 1990220301063
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 24 October 1990
42 m awayRef 1990220310038
Slight
Car crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 4 September 1982
45 m awayRef 1982220509006
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the B4218 in Herefordshire, 12 December 2018
49 m awayRef 2018220820662
Slight
Car crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 22 June 1990
50 m awayRef 1990220306073
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4218 in Herefordshire, 26 April 2002
99 m awayRef 200222ED20740
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Coupe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Alfa Romeo 33
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,712 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Alfa Romeo 33)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Alfa Romeo 33)
- 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 200422ED28201 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.