Unclassified road crash in Herefordshire HR2 on 25 February 2017 at 18:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Herefordshire at 18:20 on Saturday 25 February 2017. A 34-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 2017
- Saturday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0388, longitude -2.73533, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220164358
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 7 June 1997
34 m awayRef 199722EC02648
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 25 October 1979
53 m awayRef 1979220510054
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 10 July 2004
101 m awayRef 200422EA29004
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 14 September 1979
110 m awayRef 1979220509028
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 10 February 1980
119 m awayRef 1980220502019
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 27 February 1981
123 m awayRef 1981220502037
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017220164358 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.