A44 crash in Herefordshire on 1 June 2002 at 12:25 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the A44 in Herefordshire at 12:25 on Saturday 1 June 2002. The 36-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jun 2002
- Saturday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20272, longitude -2.41568, in the WR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200222EJ21177
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2007.
Slight
Renault crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 31 May 2007
14 m awayRef 200722EA85963
Slight
Ford Ranger crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 31 May 2025
18 m awayRef 2025221603501
Slight
BMW Z3 crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 25 December 2004
30 m awayRef 200422EJ30890
Slight
Car crash on the A44 in the Malvern Hills, 8 July 1986
61 m awayRef 1986220507035
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 7 December 2025
75 m awayRef 2025221679641
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 24 June 2002
110 m awayRef 200222EJ21377
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 200222EJ21177 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 2002.