A465 crash in Herefordshire on 10 October 2008 at 19:54 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A465 in Herefordshire at 19:54 on Friday 10 October 2008. The 27-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle and an 18-year-old female passenger on the Suzuki motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 2008
- Friday, 19:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Suzuki
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04558, longitude -2.72641, in the HR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Red Hill, Herefordshire, HR2 7RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822EA87984
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 465
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 25 September 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 25 September 1980
At the same spotRef 1980220509064
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 6 May 2012
At the same spotRef 201222E201858
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 17 October 2011
At the same spotRef 201122E104625
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 7 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200922E904336
Slight
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 2 April 1987
At the same spotRef 1987220504009
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 12 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200522EA34309
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki)
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 200822EA87984 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.