B4203 crash in Herefordshire on 19 April 2025 at 21:10 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the B4203 in Herefordshire at 21:10 on Saturday 19 April 2025. The 22-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
- 19 Apr 2025
- Saturday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27451, longitude -2.45748, in the WR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025221579905
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4203
- 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, 21 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 April 2025.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4203 in Herefordshire, 19 April 2025
21 m awayRef 2025221579904
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B4203 in Herefordshire, 4 February 1999
21 m awayRef 199922ER00384
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the B4203 in Herefordshire, 11 May 2019
49 m awayRef 2019220840238
Slight
Van crash on the B4203 in Herefordshire, 7 September 2012
72 m awayRef 201222E203883
Serious
Car crash on the B4203 in the Malvern Hills, 28 October 1996
89 m awayRef 199622EK08175
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B4203 in Herefordshire, 19 May 2024
96 m awayRef 2024221445254
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 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 2025221579905 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 2025.