A44 crash in Herefordshire on 22 July 2013 at 17:05 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A44 in Herefordshire at 17:05 on Monday 22 July 2013. The 24-year-old male driver of the car and the 22-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf were 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
- 22 Jul 2013
- Monday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18707, longitude -2.52948, in the HR7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201322E302640
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 55 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2024.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 31 October 2024
55 m awayRef 2024221512612
Serious
Van crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 2 August 1980
81 m awayRef 1980220508007
Fatal
Honda Civic crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 18 December 2007
100 m awayRef 200722EA86829
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 5 April 2003
132 m awayRef 200322EJ24262
Slight
HGV crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 20 October 2024
184 m awayRef 2024221506281
Serious
Car crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 20 March 1979
184 m awayRef 1979220503044
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 201322E302640 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 2013.