A40 crash in Herefordshire on 22 September 2012 at 17:46 involving a Yamaha FZ6 motorcycle
A Yamaha FZ6 motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A40 in Herefordshire at 17:46 on Saturday 22 September 2012. The 26-year-old male rider of the Yamaha FZ6 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 2012
- Saturday, 17:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha FZ6 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9264, longitude -2.57411, 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 North, Herefordshire, HR9 7US area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222E203993
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2022.
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A40 in Herefordshire, 7 July 2022
9 m awayRef 2022221196474
Slight
Volvo crash on the A40 in Herefordshire, 27 December 2013
10 m awayRef 201322E400068
Slight
Van crash on the A40 in Herefordshire, 27 March 2008
10 m awayRef 200822EA87226
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on the A40 in Herefordshire, 22 September 1997
32 m awayRef 199722ET04479
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A40 in Herefordshire, 4 October 1996
32 m awayRef 199622EY07566
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A40 in Herefordshire, 8 September 2020
36 m awayRef 2020220981363
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha FZ6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha FZ6)
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 201222E203993 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.