Serious A44 crash in Herefordshire on 12 July 2018 at 13:25 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on the A44 in Herefordshire at 13:25 on Thursday 12 July 2018. The 57-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jul 2018
- Thursday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20766, longitude -2.57687, in the HR7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018220311874
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 September 1991.
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 7 September 1991
7 m awayRef 1991220609006
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 16 August 1987
12 m awayRef 1987220508046
Serious
Car crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 28 January 1996
12 m awayRef 199622EQ00912
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 10 October 2025
16 m awayRef 2025221655290
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 17 December 1997
20 m awayRef 199722EY05634
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 24 March 2000
20 m awayRef 200022EJ12949
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- 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 2018220311874 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 2018.