B4260 crash in Herefordshire on 7 June 2011 at 11:01 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4260 in Herefordshire at 11:01 on Tuesday 7 June 2011. The 16-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jun 2011
- Tuesday, 11:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9138, longitude -2.57584, 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
- 201122E102331
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4260
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 1999.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4260 in Herefordshire, 20 February 1999
22 m awayRef 199922EP00543
Serious
Car crash on the B4260 in Herefordshire, 20 March 1989
30 m awayRef 1989220503030
Slight
Car crash on the B4260 in Herefordshire, 22 November 1985
32 m awayRef 1985220511060
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Herefordshire, 3 November 1985
32 m awayRef 1985220511011
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Herefordshire, 30 July 1979
63 m awayRef 1979220507053
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the B4260 in Herefordshire, 2 April 2016
66 m awayRef 2016220076752
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201122E102331 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 2011.