A417 crash in Gloucester on 22 September 2012 at 14:54 involving a Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle
A car and a Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A417 in Gloucester at 14:54 on Saturday 22 September 2012. The 48-year-old male rider of the Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 2012
- Saturday, 14:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Harley-Davidson FLS
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87293, longitude -2.26327, in the GL1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Highnam with Haw Bridge, Tewkesbury, GL2 8BZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012530207240
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 417
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 July 1990.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A417 in Tewkesbury, 8 July 1990
12 m awayRef 1990530BI0401
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A417 in Gloucester, 30 November 2012
34 m awayRef 2012530207347
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A417 in Gloucester, 7 June 2007
34 m awayRef 2007530191133
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A417 in Gloucester, 8 December 2001
40 m awayRef 2001530AI4307
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A417 in Gloucester, 11 June 2007
43 m awayRef 2007530191132
Slight
Lorry crash on the A417 in Gloucester, 6 June 2018
60 m awayRef 2018530308130
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Harley-Davidson FLS
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,450 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Harley-Davidson FLS)
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 2012530207240 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 2012.