A49 crash in Herefordshire on 16 June 2025 at 13:13 involving a Mazda CX-5
A Mazda CX-5 and a Suzuki Alto were involved in a crash on the A49 in Herefordshire at 13:13 on Monday 16 June 2025. The 33-year-old male driver of the Mazda CX-5, a 45-year-old female passenger in the Mazda CX-5 and the 63-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Alto were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jun 2025
- Monday, 13:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda CX-5 and Suzuki Alto
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17207, longitude -2.71716, in the HR6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queenswood, Herefordshire, HR6 0PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025221619909
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2002.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 17 December 2002
2 m awayRef 200222EG23316
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 26 February 2025
3 m awayRef 2025221558890
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 12 April 2014
11 m awayRef 201422E401302
Serious
Harley-Davidson crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 8 June 1996
11 m awayRef 199622EV04251
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 29 November 2013
14 m awayRef 201322E304524
Serious
Car crash on the A49 in Herefordshire, 23 November 1991
15 m awayRef 1991220611029
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda CX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Alto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda CX-5)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda CX-5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Alto)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2025221619909 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.