Accident hotspots in Hereford: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 83 road collisions in Hereford in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
21.6
Road Risk Score
Hereford ranks 122 of 125 towns we score — band B, below average
27 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 77.8 vehicle crimes per 100,000, 50.6% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of -23.9%. How the score works.
Vulnerable road users in Hereford (2025)
18 of Hereford's 83 collisions (22%) involved pedestrians; 17 of Hereford's 83 collisions (20%) involved cyclists; 7 of Hereford's 83 collisions (8%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 8 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 18 | 22% | 4 | 22% |
| Cyclists | 17 | 20% | 3 | 18% |
| Motorcyclists | 7 | 8% | 1 | 14% |
12 of Hereford’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
Hereford’s busiest collision clusters (2025)
Each circle is a ~100m cluster of police-reported collisions. Larger circles = more collisions; red = at least one death. Click a circle for details.
The short answer
Hereford recorded 83 police-reported collisions in 2025 — falling (-21.7% on 2024), or about 132 per 100,000 residents. No single junction dominates — risk is spread across the area below.
83
Collisions in Hereford (2025)
100
People injured or killed
-21.7%
Change vs 2024
~86
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
Hereford’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St Nicholas Street, Portfields | A49 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Goodrich Grove, Hunderton | Local road | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Hinton Road, Portfields | A49 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Shelton Mews, Portfields | B4359 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Holmer Roundabout, Widemarsh | A4103 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
What to do with this: if your regular routes cross the junctions above, they deserve extra care at peak times — these aren’t random locations, they’re where collisions repeat. For context, Hereford’s rate of 132 per 100,000 residents compares with an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track. A junction with a documented five-year history is also the strongest evidence a campaign can put in front of a councillor.
Vulnerable road users in Hereford in 2025: 18 collisions involved a pedestrian, 17 a cyclist and 7 a motorcyclist — overall, 131.7 collisions per 100,000 residents.
Area definition: figures cover 6km radius of the town centre. Per-100k rates use the mid-2023 ONS population estimate for the named town or district; where the area is radius-defined, treat the rate as indicative.
These figures come from the Department for Transport’s STATS19 dataset — every collision reported to the police in 2025 — clustered to roughly 100 metres and labelled via OpenStreetMap. Only police-reported incidents are included, so minor damage-only bumps are undercounted. See the full UK hotspots analysis for the national picture and methodology.
Need this cut a different way? A junction’s full history, cyclist or pedestrian casualties on their own, or a before-and-after on a scheme: we produce those, free for community groups, campaigners and journalists.
Hereford over 5 years
Collisions per year in Hereford
2025: 83 (down 21.7% on the year before) · peak 109 in 2021 · -23.9% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2021 was Hereford’s worst year of the period with 109 collisions, against 83 in 2025. Of 2025’s 100 casualties, 17 were killed or seriously injured (1 deaths, 16 serious).
Build the Hereford story from this page
Every line below is computed from the official DfT STATS19 dataset and updates when new data is released — copy, check, publish. Free to use with a link to this page as the source.
- “Police recorded 83 road collisions in Hereford in 2025, injuring or killing 100 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2021 was Hereford's worst year of the last 5 (109 collisions, against 83 in 2025).
- “Hereford's collision rate is 132 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “18 collisions involved pedestrians, 17 collisions involved cyclists, 7 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 8 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “12 collisions in Hereford involved a child casualty in 2025.
Attribution: “Analysis by Swift Assist (swiftassistuk.co.uk) of DfT STATS19 data” with a link to this page. Methodology: how we process the data.
Hereford's roads are Herefordshire, County of's responsibility
Collisions above are counted for Hereford. The body that maintains those roads, sets the speed limits and decides which junctions get fixed is Herefordshire, County of — so that is the level at which the record can be compared with anywhere else in Britain.
Per mile driven
127 of 192
Per resident
44 of 188
Risk band
Below average
Five-year trend
down 10.9%
Those two numbers disagree, and that is the story. Herefordshire, County of sits 44 of 188 measured per resident but 127 of 192 measured per mile actually driven — a gap of 83 places. Measured against the traffic the network actually carries rather than the number of people living beside it, the record is better than the headline per-head figure implies.
The full record for Herefordshire, County of — severity-adjusted casualties, the breakdown of who is being hurt, the darkness and ice profile, and a comparison against its ONS statistical neighbours rather than the national average — is on its own page.
Herefordshire, County of’s full road risk record →What actually changes the odds in Hereford
Data is only useful if it changes what you do. These three are picked from Hereford’s own figures above, each with the number that prompted it. Every guide explains how the thing works before it suggests buying anything, and most cost less than a third of a typical insurance excess.
Helmet camera
£50–£200
20% of collisions in Hereford involve someone on a bike. In a disputed pull-out, footage from the rider's viewpoint is what settles liability.
How it works →
Dashcam (parking mode)
£50–£150
22% of collisions here involve a pedestrian, and those are the cases most often argued over. Footage removes the argument.
How it works →
Faraday key pouch / box
£9–£25
Even at Hereford's 78 vehicle crimes per 100,000 residents, relay theft is the method that needs no tools and leaves no damage. The pouch is the cheapest thing that stops it.
How it works →
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