B4234 crash in Herefordshire on 19 July 2014 at 15:54 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4234 in Herefordshire at 15:54 on Saturday 19 July 2014. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 2014
- Saturday, 15:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88982, longitude -2.58905, in the HR9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422E402687
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4234
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 1999.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4234 in Herefordshire, 26 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199922EA02025
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B4234 in Herefordshire, 7 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199822EW04367
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the B4234 in Herefordshire, 18 December 1995
10 m awayRef 199522EC13918
Serious
Ford Capri crash on the B4228 in Herefordshire, 27 August 1992
14 m awayRef 1992220508029
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4234 in Herefordshire, 3 July 1994
22 m awayRef 199422EX06162
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4228 in Herefordshire, 11 July 1981
32 m awayRef 1981220507021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc 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 201422E402687 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.