Unclassified road crash in Herefordshire HR2 on 7 June 2015 at 11:43 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire at 11:43 on Sunday 7 June 2015. The 68-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jun 2015
- Sunday, 11:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03799, longitude -2.73923, in the HR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belmont Rural, Herefordshire, HR2 7UG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201522E502435
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 May 1988.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 10 May 1988
10 m awayRef 1988220505033
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 7 October 1994
14 m awayRef 199422EG09897
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 26 May 1996
30 m awayRef 199622EB03912
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 26 May 2012
40 m awayRef 201222E202116
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 11 January 2004
40 m awayRef 200422EA27142
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 15 May 2004
40 m awayRef 200422EA28420
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
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 201522E502435 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.