B4479 crash in Cotswold on 21 May 2008 at 10:30 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Yamaha SR 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4479 in Cotswold at 10:30 on Wednesday 21 May 2008. The 20-year-old female rider of the Yamaha SR 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 May 2008
- Wednesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Yamaha SR 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.01664, longitude -1.75574, in the GL56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008530194740
- Council area
- Cotswold
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4479
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 July 1990.
Serious
Hyundai Pony crash on the B4479 in Cotswold, 12 July 1990
10 m awayRef 1990530AI1096
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the B4479 in Cotswold, 5 November 1993
42 m awayRef 1993530AI1645
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 10 February 1982
61 m awayRef 1982530AI0098
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4479 in Cotswold, 26 July 2014
75 m awayRef 2014530208901
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4479 in Cotswold, 16 May 1980
108 m awayRef 1980530NI0321
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 6 May 1985
125 m awayRef 1985530AI0242
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,493 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha SR 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha SR 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 2008530194740 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cotswold road accident statistics for 2008.