B4224 crash in Herefordshire on 29 August 2014 at 23:15 involving a Vauxhall Combo van
A Vauxhall Combo van crashed on the B4224 in Herefordshire at 23:15 on Friday 29 August 2014. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 2014
- Friday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99522, longitude -2.58373, in the HR1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422E403333
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4224
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2004.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B4224 in Herefordshire, 18 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200422EB30893
Serious
Datsun Sunny crash on the B4224 in Herefordshire, 26 April 1993
22 m awayRef 1993220504030
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4224 in Herefordshire, 23 April 2003
28 m awayRef 200322EB24426
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the B4224 in Herefordshire, 8 August 2002
36 m awayRef 200222ED21870
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the B4224 in Herefordshire, 19 April 2015
78 m awayRef 201522E501451
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B4224 in Herefordshire, 10 July 2020
242 m awayRef 2020220965864
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
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 201422E403333 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 2014.