Unclassified road crash in Herefordshire HR1 on 14 December 2011 at 16:50 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 and a lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire at 16:50 on Wednesday 14 December 2011. The 61-year-old male driver of the Citroen C2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C2 and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10528, longitude -2.68285, in the HR1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201122E200019
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 2004.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 20 February 2004
14 m awayRef 200422EB27581
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 11 January 1981
54 m awayRef 1981220501008
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 29 May 1981
98 m awayRef 1981220505065
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 24 June 2009
103 m awayRef 200922E903452
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 3 July 1983
106 m awayRef 1983220507048
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 30 January 2018
115 m awayRef 2018220291596
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
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 201122E200019 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.