B4230 crash in Herefordshire on 10 February 2017 at 23:48 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the B4230 in Herefordshire at 23:48 on Friday 10 February 2017. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Feb 2017
- Friday, 23:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.14054, longitude -2.89293, in the HR4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220162019
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4230
- 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
- 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, 204 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 August 1998.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B4320 in Herefordshire, 22 August 1998
204 m awayRef 199822ER02914
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B4230 in Herefordshire, 27 September 1995
440 m awayRef 199522EF10885
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4230 in Herefordshire, 4 March 2004
603 m awayRef 200422EH27726
Slight
Car crash on the B4230 in Herefordshire, 27 November 2003
834 m awayRef 200322EH26891
Serious
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the B4320 in Herefordshire, 26 March 2005
914 m awayRef 200522EG31815
Slight
Car crash on the B4230 in Herefordshire, 8 December 2004
928 m awayRef 200422EH30733
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- 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 2017220162019 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 2017.