A438 crash in Herefordshire on 14 November 2025 at 15:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the A438 in Herefordshire at 15:15 on Friday 14 November 2025. A 64-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2025
- Friday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05251, longitude -2.70621, in the HR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eign Hill, Herefordshire, HR1 2TU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025221669045
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 438
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 1981.
Slight
Scooter crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 3 March 1981
7 m awayRef 1981220503012
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 10 September 2001
9 m awayRef 200122EA18175
Slight
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 24 March 2002
11 m awayRef 200222EA20316
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 18 July 1990
11 m awayRef 1990220507039
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 6 February 2014
11 m awayRef 201422E400634
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 21 May 1996
13 m awayRef 199622EL03944
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 64, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2025221669045 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.