A465 crash in Herefordshire on 21 December 2012 at 12:00 involving a Citroen Berlingo
A Citroen Berlingo, a car and a Vauxhall Insignia were involved in a crash on the A465 in Herefordshire at 12:00 on Friday 21 December 2012. The 39-year-old female driver of the car and the 41-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Insignia were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2012
- Friday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen Berlingo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04118, longitude -2.74106, in the HR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belmont Rural, Herefordshire, HR2 7UG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222E300005
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 465
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2000.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 7 December 2000
14 m awayRef 200022EA15542
Slight
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 13 August 1999
22 m awayRef 199922EA10465
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 26 March 2014
32 m awayRef 201422E401170
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 18 July 1995
36 m awayRef 199522EA07729
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 24 September 1984
40 m awayRef 1984220509067
Serious
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 28 December 1985
41 m awayRef 1985220512051
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Insignia)
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 201222E300005 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.