Unclassified road crash in Herefordshire HR4 on 14 January 2016 at 15:45 involving a Volkswagen Scirocco
A bicycle and a Volkswagen Scirocco were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire at 15:45 on Thursday 14 January 2016. The 24-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jan 2016
- Thursday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Volkswagen Scirocco
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06392, longitude -2.71415, in the HR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Widemarsh, Herefordshire, HR4 9SW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016220043018
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 2010.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 22 June 2010
1 m awayRef 201022E003152
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 9 January 1979
9 m awayRef 1979220501022
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 10 June 1988
9 m awayRef 1988220506025
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 6 February 1989
11 m awayRef 1989220502015
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 3 April 2006
16 m awayRef 200622EA35932
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B4359 in Herefordshire, 22 March 1985
16 m awayRef 1985220503059
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Scirocco
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 24, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2016220043018 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 2016.