B4349 crash in Herefordshire on 14 October 2000 at 19:30 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the B4349 in Herefordshire at 19:30 on Saturday 14 October 2000. The 25-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 2000
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03587, longitude -2.79652, in the HR2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200022EB14819
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4349
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the B4348 in Herefordshire, 2 January 2006
32 m awayRef 200622EB34478
Slight
Optare crash on the B4349 in Herefordshire, 2 August 2014
51 m awayRef 201422E403127
Serious
Car crash on the B4349 in Herefordshire, 3 June 1980
54 m awayRef 1980220506014
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4349 in Herefordshire, 11 April 1999
63 m awayRef 199922EH01135
Slight
Mitsubishi L200 crash on the B4349 in Herefordshire, 1 May 2003
112 m awayRef 200322EB24658
Slight
Car crash on the B4349 in Herefordshire, 4 December 1981
124 m awayRef 1981220512011
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 200022EB14819 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 2000.