Fatal A4111 crash in Herefordshire on 15 February 2008 at 18:50 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the A4111 in Herefordshire at 18:50 on Friday 15 February 2008. The 17-year-old male driver was killed.
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
- Fatal
- Date
- 15 Feb 2008
- Friday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19391, longitude -3.02128, in the HR5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822EA87071
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4111
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 October 2025.
Serious
Kawasaki ZX crash on the A4111 in Herefordshire, 8 October 2025
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Serious
Ford Cortina crash on the A4111 in Herefordshire, 4 July 1990
54 m awayRef 1990220507003
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A4111 in Herefordshire, 14 December 1994
67 m awayRef 199422EH12658
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A4111 in Herefordshire, 27 November 2020
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4111 in Herefordshire, 22 February 2010
85 m awayRef 201022E001026
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A4111 in Herefordshire, 28 April 2015
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 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 200822EA87071 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 2008.