A49 crash in Herefordshire on 18 December 2022 at 17:17 involving a Kia Ceed
A Kia Ceed hit a pedestrian on the A49 in Herefordshire at 17:17 on Sunday 18 December 2022. A 27-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2022
- Sunday, 17:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Ceed
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06839, longitude -2.72223, in the HR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Widemarsh, Herefordshire, HR4 9SW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022221255464
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 49
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 December 2007.
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 3 December 2007
10 m awayRef 200722EA86754
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 18 December 1993
11 m awayRef 1993220512035
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 8 April 1995
11 m awayRef 199522EG03572
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 3 January 2001
11 m awayRef 200122EA15836
Serious
Peugeot 605 crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 15 April 1996
13 m awayRef 199622ER02822
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 10 April 1992
15 m awayRef 1992220504022
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Ceed
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Kia Ceed)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2022221255464 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 2022.