A449 crash in Herefordshire on 29 May 2016 at 23:05 involving an MG ZR
An MG ZR crashed on the A449 in Herefordshire at 23:05 on Sunday 29 May 2016. The 35-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 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 May 2016
- Sunday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG ZR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03263, longitude -2.42149, in the HR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ledbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ledbury South, Herefordshire, HR8 2GP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016220084767
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 449
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 February 1985.
Slight
Van crash on the A417 in the Malvern Hills, 11 February 1985
7 m awayRef 1985220302026
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A449 in Herefordshire, 6 January 1999
21 m awayRef 199922EZ00046
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 18 March 1985
21 m awayRef 1985220303051
Slight
Car crash on the A417 in the Malvern Hills, 10 September 1989
26 m awayRef 1989220309059
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A449 in Herefordshire, 5 November 2003
51 m awayRef 200322ED26595
Slight
Van crash on the A417 in the Malvern Hills, 27 September 1984
68 m awayRef 1984220309061
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG ZR)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016220084767 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.