Unclassified road crash in Herefordshire HR9 on 9 July 2008 at 17:00 involving a Skoda Felicia
A Skoda Felicia and an Aprilia motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire at 17:00 on Wednesday 9 July 2008. The 29-year-old male rider of the Aprilia motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jul 2008
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Felicia and Aprilia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92087, longitude -2.58175, in the HR9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ross-on-Wye. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ross East, Herefordshire, HR9 7AE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822EA87609
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 June 2002.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 15 June 2002
10 m awayRef 200222EC21345
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 14 June 2004
10 m awayRef 200422EC28791
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 28 March 1989
14 m awayRef 1989220503058
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 19 January 1983
22 m awayRef 1983220501022
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 20 August 1982
28 m awayRef 1982220508038
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 17 August 1989
40 m awayRef 1989220508043
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Felicia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Aprilia
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia)
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 200822EA87609 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.