Serious B4214 crash in Herefordshire on 28 October 2025 at 19:00 involving a BMW X1
A BMW X1 crashed on the B4214 in Herefordshire at 19:00 on Tuesday 28 October 2025. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW X1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0704, longitude -2.45175, in the HR8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025221663780
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4214
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a fatal crash on 1 June 1984.
Fatal
Car crash on the B4214 in the Malvern Hills, 1 June 1984
38 m awayRef 1984220306016
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the B4214 in Herefordshire, 27 November 2011
56 m awayRef 201122E105081
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the B4214 in Herefordshire, 6 October 2022
77 m awayRef 2022221229885
Slight
Kia Sedona crash on the B4214 in Herefordshire, 12 January 2012
124 m awayRef 201222E200270
Slight
Bus crash on the B4214 in Herefordshire, 11 April 2003
131 m awayRef 200322ED24520
Slight
Car crash on the B4214 in Herefordshire, 17 September 1999
131 m awayRef 199922ED10893
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW X1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X1)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025221663780 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.