A44 crash in Herefordshire on 20 October 2024 at 21:30 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the A44 in Herefordshire at 21:30 on Sunday 20 October 2024. The 36-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 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2024
- Sunday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18694, longitude -2.52678, in the HR7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024221506281
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 130 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2024.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 31 October 2024
130 m awayRef 2024221512612
Slight
Scania crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 18 September 2007
180 m awayRef 200722EA86398
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 22 July 2013
184 m awayRef 201322E302640
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 14 April 1994
242 m awayRef 199422EB03774
Serious
Van crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 2 August 1980
265 m awayRef 1980220508007
Fatal
Honda Civic crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 18 December 2007
285 m awayRef 200722EA86829
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2024221506281 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 2024.