Serious A38 crash in Worcester on 15 November 2025 at 19:18 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Nov 2025
- Saturday, 19:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Insignia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19302, longitude -2.21806, in the WR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cathedral, Worcester, WR1 3QT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025221670512
- Council area
- Worcester
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 1999.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A38 in Worcester, 19 August 1999
2 m awayRef 199922CA10874
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A38 in Worcester, 6 February 2022
5 m awayRef 2022221140522
Slight
MG Metro crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 29 October 1998
8 m awayRef 199822CJ05575
Slight
Bus crash on the A38 in Worcester, 5 April 1988
8 m awayRef 1988220304010
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A38 in Worcester, 22 January 1991
9 m awayRef 1991220401040
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in Worcester, 25 November 2016
9 m awayRef 2016220134675
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,490 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025221670512 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worcester road accident statistics for 2025.