A44 crash in Herefordshire on 22 December 2011 at 12:30 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Renault Master van were involved in a crash on the A44 in Herefordshire at 12:30 on Thursday 22 December 2011. The 84-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Renault Master
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21852, longitude -2.77651, in the HR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201122E200160
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 2007.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 9 May 2007
At the same spotRef 200722EA85871
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 17 July 2012
At the same spotRef 201222E202961
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 19 February 2025
8 m awayRef 2025221561967
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Ford Escort crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 31 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199922EJ01642
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Ford Escort crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 16 February 2004
10 m awayRef 200422EG27527
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 10 May 2014
10 m awayRef 201422E401798
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Master
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,464 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 201122E200160 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.