A465 crash in Herefordshire on 22 July 2012 at 13:50 involving a Piaggio Zip motorcycle
A motorcycle, a Piaggio Zip motorcycle and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A465 in Herefordshire at 13:50 on Sunday 22 July 2012. The 15-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2012
- Sunday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Piaggio Zip and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04395, longitude -2.72974, 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
- 201222E202989
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 5 June 1983
At the same spotRef 1983220506017
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 17 April 2003
10 m awayRef 200322EA24385
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 13 May 2008
10 m awayRef 200822EA87393
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 3 November 2007
14 m awayRef 200722EA86602
Serious
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 3 October 2009
14 m awayRef 200922E906057
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 8 November 2005
14 m awayRef 200522EA33945
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Zip
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 15, 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 201222E202989 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 2012.