B4203 crash in Herefordshire on 24 July 2017 at 14:20 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on the B4203 in Herefordshire at 14:20 on Monday 24 July 2017. A 93-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2017
- Monday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18867, longitude -2.50595, in the HR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromyard. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromyard West, Herefordshire, HR7 4AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220210102
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4203
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 May 1980.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 31 May 1980
22 m awayRef 1980220505070
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4203 in the Malvern Hills, 22 September 1985
42 m awayRef 1985220509055
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 10 December 1988
46 m awayRef 1988220512027
Slight
Car crash on the B4203 in Herefordshire, 7 June 2016
46 m awayRef 2016220077757
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 24 August 1980
59 m awayRef 1980220508043
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 3 December 1992
61 m awayRef 1992220612005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 93, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2017220210102 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.