A465 crash in Herefordshire on 8 October 2014 at 17:10 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A bicycle and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A465 in Herefordshire at 17:10 on Wednesday 8 October 2014. The 15-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 2014
- Wednesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06147, longitude -2.70172, in the HR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eign Hill, Herefordshire, HR1 2TU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422E403790
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 2022.
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 12 July 2022
3 m awayRef 2022221198740
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 9 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982220512014
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 22 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199622EB03015
Serious
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 23 September 2004
10 m awayRef 200422EA29810
Serious
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 6 February 1987
10 m awayRef 1987220502006
Slight
Car crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 4 October 1984
10 m awayRef 1984220510002
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, 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 201422E403790 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.