A438 crash in Herefordshire on 19 June 2008 at 08:15 involving a Ford Transit van
A bicycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A438 in Herefordshire at 08:15 on Thursday 19 June 2008. The 34-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jun 2008
- Thursday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05482, longitude -2.70162, in the HR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eign Hill, Herefordshire, HR1 2TU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822EA87539
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 438
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 2001.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 22 September 2001
10 m awayRef 200122EA18360
Serious
Car crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 18 June 1987
10 m awayRef 1987220506032
Slight
Car crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 30 March 1980
14 m awayRef 1980220503078
Slight
Car crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 12 December 1979
20 m awayRef 1979220512035
Slight
Austin Maxi crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 20 January 1990
22 m awayRef 1990220501034
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 18 January 2006
41 m awayRef 200622EA34623
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 34, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200822EA87539 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.