B4362 crash in Herefordshire on 6 May 2017 at 08:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Mazda 6 were involved in a crash on the B4362 in Herefordshire at 08:00 on Saturday 6 May 2017. The 31-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 2017
- Saturday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Mazda 6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26599, longitude -2.96142, in the LD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220181043
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4362
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 August 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4362 in Herefordshire, 11 August 2014
8 m awayRef 201422E403017
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B4362 in Herefordshire, 2 November 2002
16 m awayRef 200222EH22850
Slight
Car crash on the B4362 in Herefordshire, 20 March 1979
56 m awayRef 1979220503047
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B4362 in Herefordshire, 4 November 2008
70 m awayRef 200822EA00064
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B4362 in Herefordshire, 13 October 2018
79 m awayRef 2018220355744
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B4362 in Herefordshire, 19 November 2001
92 m awayRef 200122EH19031
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,488 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2017220181043 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.