B4347 crash in Herefordshire on 17 February 2012 at 00:44 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on the B4347 in Herefordshire at 00:44 on Friday 17 February 2012. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2012
- Friday, 00:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95486, longitude -2.88443, in the HR2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222E200832
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4347
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 February 1994.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4347 in Herefordshire, 2 February 1994
61 m awayRef 1994220502013
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B4347 in Herefordshire, 31 May 1990
150 m awayRef 1990220505060
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4347 in Herefordshire, 15 July 1982
359 m awayRef 1982220507041
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B4347 in Herefordshire, 19 April 1986
396 m awayRef 1986220504032
Slight
Renault 9 crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 27 April 1999
400 m awayRef 199922EN01370
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 31 August 2007
402 m awayRef 200722EA86311
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
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 201222E200832 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 2012.