B4355 crash in Herefordshire on 24 December 2009 at 09:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B4355 in Herefordshire at 09:00 on Thursday 24 December 2009. The 36-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on an icy dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2009
- Thursday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22223, longitude -3.00026, in the HR5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200922E000192
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4355
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4355 in Herefordshire, 19 June 1998
32 m awayRef 199822EU02088
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4355 in Herefordshire, 24 January 1990
36 m awayRef 1990220501056
Slight
Car crash on the B4355 in Herefordshire, 14 May 1981
58 m awayRef 1981220505025
Serious
MG Metro crash on the B4355 in Herefordshire, 15 October 1993
94 m awayRef 1993220610009
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B4355 in Herefordshire, 4 February 2003
139 m awayRef 200322EH23737
Slight
New Holland crash on the B4355 in Herefordshire, 29 September 2024
177 m awayRef 2024221498118
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200922E000192 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 2009.