A438 crash in Herefordshire on 26 March 2012 at 16:50 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris crashed on the A438 in Herefordshire at 16:50 on Monday 26 March 2012. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2012
- Monday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05109, longitude -2.51912, in the HR8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222E201358
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 438
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a fatal crash on 11 November 2013.
Fatal
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 11 November 2013
32 m awayRef 201322E304021
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 27 December 2004
42 m awayRef 200422ED30954
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A438 in the Malvern Hills, 21 September 1979
170 m awayRef 1979220509048
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A438 in the Malvern Hills, 19 December 1994
198 m awayRef 199422EL12661
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 21 October 2006
276 m awayRef 200622EA37720
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 5 September 2003
283 m awayRef 200322ED25791
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
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 201222E201358 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.