Unclassified road crash in Herefordshire HR4 on 4 February 2015 at 08:50 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Herefordshire at 08:50 on Wednesday 4 February 2015. A 45-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 2015
- Wednesday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05999, longitude -2.7148, in the HR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Herefordshire, HR4 9EE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201522E500621
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4359 in Herefordshire, 24 May 2012
10 m awayRef 201222E202092
Serious
Car crash on the B4359 in Herefordshire, 5 March 1982
10 m awayRef 1982220503024
Slight
Ford Explorer crash on the B4395 in Herefordshire, 11 November 2006
22 m awayRef 200622EA37792
Slight
Car crash on the B4359 in Herefordshire, 12 June 1989
30 m awayRef 1989220506020
Serious
Van crash on the B4359 in Herefordshire, 20 April 1983
30 m awayRef 1983220504020
Slight
Lorry crash on the B4359 in Herefordshire, 23 February 1989
30 m awayRef 1989220502041
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,809 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201522E500621 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 2015.