A44 crash in Herefordshire on 24 December 2014 at 23:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A44 in Herefordshire at 23:20 on Wednesday 24 December 2014. The 30-year-old female 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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1891, longitude -2.45256, in the WR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422E404907
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 June 2006.
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 13 June 2006
20 m awayRef 200622EA36248
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 21 December 2004
20 m awayRef 200422EJ30852
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 3 August 1998
22 m awayRef 199822ER02707
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 30 August 1992
41 m awayRef 1992220608019
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 13 October 2006
41 m awayRef 200622EA37751
Fatal
Car crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 2 August 1979
61 m awayRef 1979220508002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201422E404907 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.