Serious B4229 crash in Herefordshire on 15 June 2007 at 22:30 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series crashed on the B4229 in Herefordshire at 22:30 on Friday 15 June 2007. The 18-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jun 2007
- Friday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86282, longitude -2.62907, in the HR9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722EA86011
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4229
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 June 1990.
Fatal
Rover Montego crash on the B4229 in Herefordshire, 20 June 1990
36 m awayRef 1990220506036
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4229 in Herefordshire, 5 June 1990
94 m awayRef 1990220506065
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4229 in Herefordshire, 24 April 1982
125 m awayRef 1982220504062
Serious
Saab 9000 crash on the B4229 in Herefordshire, 17 May 1997
134 m awayRef 199722EC02234
Slight
Toyota Previa crash on the B4229 in Herefordshire, 6 October 2001
134 m awayRef 200122EC18482
Slight
John Deere crash on the B4229 in Herefordshire, 14 March 2007
139 m awayRef 200722EA85710
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
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 200722EA86011 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.