Serious B4214 crash in Herefordshire on 27 August 2006 at 15:40 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the B4214 in Herefordshire at 15:40 on Sunday 27 August 2006. The 34-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Aug 2006
- Sunday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06137, longitude -2.44471, in the HR8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200622EA37073
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4214
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2024.
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the B4214 in Herefordshire, 27 December 2024
25 m awayRef 2024221535451
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4214 in the Malvern Hills, 22 February 1993
32 m awayRef 1993220502014
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B4214 in the Malvern Hills, 13 November 1992
32 m awayRef 1992220511017
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4214 in the Malvern Hills, 23 February 1993
32 m awayRef 1993220502018
Serious
Car crash on the B4218 in the Malvern Hills, 24 February 1979
50 m awayRef 1979220502057
Serious
Austin Mini crash on the B4214 in Herefordshire, 24 June 2001
64 m awayRef 200122ED17524
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 200622EA37073 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 2006.