A465 crash in Herefordshire on 30 August 2011 at 19:45 involving a Honda XR125L motorcycle
A Honda XR125L motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A465 in Herefordshire at 19:45 on Tuesday 30 August 2011. The 17-year-old male rider of the Honda XR125L motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2011
- Tuesday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda XR125L and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04567, 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
- 201122E103718
- 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
- 20 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 1 April 1980
At the same spotRef 1980220504003
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 23 October 1991
At the same spotRef 1991220510030
Serious
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 29 June 1980
At the same spotRef 1980220506068
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 27 June 2023
5 m awayRef 2023221326471
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 22 October 1986
10 m awayRef 1986220510053
Serious
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 25 September 1980
10 m awayRef 1980220509064
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda XR125L
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda XR125L)
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 201122E103718 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.