Unclassified road crash in Herefordshire HR8 on 26 August 2012 at 00:25 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A Daewoo Matiz crashed on an unclassified road in Herefordshire at 00:25 on Sunday 26 August 2012. The 21-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 2012
- Sunday, 00:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Daewoo Matiz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03379, longitude -2.43831, in the HR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ledbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ledbury South, Herefordshire, HR8 2GP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222E203468
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 20 May 1985
14 m awayRef 1985220305060
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 14 March 2009
22 m awayRef 200922E901569
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 22 December 1987
45 m awayRef 1987220312036
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 17 March 2010
58 m awayRef 201022E001455
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 19 August 1986
73 m awayRef 1986220308040
Serious
MG MGF crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 25 March 2001
73 m awayRef 200122ED16498
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
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 201222E203468 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.