B4260 crash in Herefordshire on 16 August 2013 at 03:37 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B4260 in Herefordshire at 03:37 on Friday 16 August 2013. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2013
- Friday, 03:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91229, longitude -2.59036, in the HR9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ross-on-Wye. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ross East, Herefordshire, HR9 7AE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201322E302912
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4260
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 2001.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B4260 in Herefordshire, 13 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200122EC18280
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4260 in Herefordshire, 19 January 2017
6 m awayRef 2017220186961
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B4260 in Herefordshire, 6 September 1990
10 m awayRef 1990220509019
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B4260 in Herefordshire, 1 January 2003
10 m awayRef 200322EC23449
Slight
Car crash on the B4260 in Herefordshire, 25 January 1986
14 m awayRef 1986220501042
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4260 in Herefordshire, 23 September 2023
16 m awayRef 2023221387880
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 201322E302912 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.