Unclassified road crash in Gloucester GL3 on 21 December 2011 at 18:30 involving a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle
A taxi and a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester at 18:30 on Wednesday 21 December 2011. The 16-year-old male rider of the Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and Peugeot Speedfight
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86146, longitude -2.19485, in the GL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hucclecote, Gloucester, GL3 3BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011530205557
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2018.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 4 June 2018
2 m awayRef 2018530300128
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 26 September 1984
40 m awayRef 1984530BI0636
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 24 April 1983
82 m awayRef 1983530BI0247
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 2 August 1983
135 m awayRef 1983530BI0496
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 31 March 2000
151 m awayRef 2000530AI1426
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 8 November 2001
180 m awayRef 2001530AI3868
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 2011530205557 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2011.