A4172 crash in Herefordshire on 6 October 2012 at 18:18 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the A4172 in Herefordshire at 18:18 on Saturday 6 October 2012. The 22-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2012
- Saturday, 18:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03387, longitude -2.48773, 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
- 201222E204092
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4172
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 June 2016.
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the A4172 in Herefordshire, 6 June 2016
5 m awayRef 2016220077579
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4172 in Herefordshire, 25 February 2013
54 m awayRef 201322E300734
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A4172 in Herefordshire, 22 May 1998
72 m awayRef 199822EZ01817
Slight
Lorry crash on the A4172 in the Malvern Hills, 22 September 1980
122 m awayRef 1980220509065
Slight
TVR Chimera crash on the A4172 in Herefordshire, 8 November 2004
134 m awayRef 200422ED30338
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4172 in Herefordshire, 16 December 2010
143 m awayRef 201022E006286
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 201222E204092 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.