A4172 crash in Herefordshire on 15 February 2007 at 17:40 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo, a Volkswagen Passat and two cars were involved in a crash on the A4172 in Herefordshire at 17:40 on Thursday 15 February 2007. The 85-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2007
- Thursday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 4
- Volkswagen Polo and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02105, longitude -2.47826, in the HR8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722EA85543
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4172
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2010.
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A4172 in Herefordshire, 19 October 2010
14 m awayRef 201022E005330
Serious
Volvo V60 crash on the A4172 in Herefordshire, 9 July 2023
159 m awayRef 2023221333559
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A4172 in the Malvern Hills, 1 February 1995
193 m awayRef 199522ED01476
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A4172 in Herefordshire, 7 October 2012
197 m awayRef 201222C204130
Slight
Massey Ferguson crash on the A4172 in Herefordshire, 12 August 1999
273 m awayRef 199922ED10476
Slight
Case IH crash on the A417 in Herefordshire, 20 November 2001
394 m awayRef 200122ED19857
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 85, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 200722EA85543 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 2007.