Serious B4348 crash in Herefordshire on 11 September 2011 at 14:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire at 14:00 on Sunday 11 September 2011. The 19-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Sep 2011
- Sunday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07234, longitude -3.01165, in the HR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201122E103858
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4348
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 86 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 9 September 1989
86 m awayRef 1989220509031
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4346 in Herefordshire, 2 July 1995
103 m awayRef 199522EX07381
Slight
Case IH crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 14 October 1999
134 m awayRef 199922EB11209
Slight
Car crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 29 June 1988
319 m awayRef 1988220506074
Serious
Renault 21 crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 1 October 1997
376 m awayRef 199722EY04346
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 17 September 2002
389 m awayRef 200222EB22292
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 201122E103858 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.