Serious A465 crash in Herefordshire on 28 October 2007 at 02:30 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series hit a pedestrian on the A465 in Herefordshire at 02:30 on Sunday 28 October 2007. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Oct 2007
- Sunday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 600 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04173, longitude -2.73918, in the HR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belmont Rural, Herefordshire, HR2 7UG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722EA86572
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 465
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1992.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 27 September 1992
10 m awayRef 1992220509034
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 14 May 2015
20 m awayRef 201522E501946
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 12 August 1980
22 m awayRef 1980220508029
Slight
Bedford crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 12 September 1991
22 m awayRef 1991220509031
Fatal
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 10 August 1980
28 m awayRef 1980220508020
Slight
Fiat 126 crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 16 January 1991
28 m awayRef 1991220501026
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 600 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200722EA86572 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.