A438 crash in Herefordshire on 30 March 2011 at 06:35 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Citroen Saxo were involved in a crash on the A438 in Herefordshire at 06:35 on Wednesday 30 March 2011. The 47-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2011
- Wednesday, 06:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09317, longitude -2.90556, 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
- 201122E101337
- 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
- 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
- Fine, 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2009.
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 6 August 2009
10 m awayRef 200922E904267
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 8 February 1987
61 m awayRef 1987220502007
Fatal
Kawasaki ZX900 crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 12 April 2004
63 m awayRef 200422EB28063
Slight
Renault 25 crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 12 April 1998
63 m awayRef 199822EU01398
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 1 May 2004
73 m awayRef 200422EB28300
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 15 June 1999
73 m awayRef 199922EK01965
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
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 201122E101337 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 2011.