A49 crash in Herefordshire on 9 May 2009 at 02:00 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A49 in Herefordshire at 02:00 on Saturday 9 May 2009. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 May 2009
- Saturday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.11873, longitude -2.73242, in the HR4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200922E902477
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 49
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, street lights lit
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 18 November 1989
20 m awayRef 1989220511034
Slight
Car crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 12 October 1997
20 m awayRef 199722ED04765
Slight
Seat Inca crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 20 January 1999
41 m awayRef 199922EC00164
Slight
Chrysler Neon crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 29 June 2001
41 m awayRef 200122EB17458
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 10 November 2025
49 m awayRef 2025221666295
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 12 October 2023
85 m awayRef 2023221387796
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 200922E902477 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.