A465 crash in Herefordshire on 26 March 2014 at 00:01 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A465 in Herefordshire at 00:01 on Wednesday 26 March 2014. The 20-year-old male cyclist 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
- 26 Mar 2014
- Wednesday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04127, longitude -2.74063, in the HR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belmont Rural, Herefordshire, HR2 7UG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422E401170
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 1995.
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 18 July 1995
10 m awayRef 199522EA07729
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 21 December 2012
32 m awayRef 201222E300005
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 29 May 1994
32 m awayRef 199422EJ06863
Slight
Peugeot Bipper crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 20 June 2014
36 m awayRef 201422E402296
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 2 August 1999
45 m awayRef 199922EA10310
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 7 December 2000
45 m awayRef 200022EA15542
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 20, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 201422E401170 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 2014.