A49 crash in Herefordshire on 1 October 2011 at 11:45 involving a Volkswagen Beetle
A Volkswagen Beetle hit a pedestrian on the A49 in Herefordshire at 11:45 on Saturday 1 October 2011. A 15-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 1 Oct 2011
- Saturday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Beetle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04553, longitude -2.72087, in the HR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Red Hill, Herefordshire, HR2 7RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201122E104172
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 2009.
Slight
Fiat Coupe crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 20 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200922E904621
Slight
Car crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 9 March 1986
10 m awayRef 1986220503006
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 16 October 1988
10 m awayRef 1988220510049
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 2 April 1999
10 m awayRef 199922EF01041
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 24 September 2021
11 m awayRef 2021221093979
Serious
Car crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 2 June 1981
14 m awayRef 1981220506005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Beetle
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Beetle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201122E104172 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.