Unclassified road crash in Herefordshire HR2 on 31 March 2008 at 08:05 involving a Yamaha TW 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha TW 125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Herefordshire at 08:05 on Monday 31 March 2008. The 22-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 2008
- Monday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha TW 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94177, longitude -2.98252, 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
- 200822EA87252
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2004.
Slight
MAN crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 12 March 2004
41 m awayRef 200422EB27807
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 23 January 1984
51 m awayRef 1984220501056
Serious
Car crash on the B4396 in Shropshire, 29 November 1986
91 m awayRef 1986220611077
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 28 August 1995
310 m awayRef 199522EV09518
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 12 March 1994
320 m awayRef 1994220503014
Slight
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356 m awayRef 2023221311081
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha TW 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha TW 125)
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 200822EA87252 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 2008.