Serious unclassified road crash in Herefordshire HR2 on 6 January 2015 at 12:25 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Herefordshire at 12:25 on Tuesday 6 January 2015. A 49-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jan 2015
- Tuesday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04082, longitude -2.74599, in the HR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belmont Rural, Herefordshire, HR2 7UG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201522E500361
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 85 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 2004.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 17 June 2004
85 m awayRef 200422EA28778
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 15 July 1991
91 m awayRef 1991220507023
Fatal
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 12 March 1981
92 m awayRef 1981220503016
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 13 May 2009
92 m awayRef 200922E902591
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 13 April 2006
103 m awayRef 200622EA35586
Serious
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 2 January 1984
108 m awayRef 1984220501016
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 49, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 201522E500361 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 2015.