A488 crash in Shropshire on 16 December 2014 at 11:56 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Honda CBF125M motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A488 in Shropshire at 11:56 on Tuesday 16 December 2014. The 17-year-old female rider of the Honda CBF125M motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 11:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Honda CBF125M
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64778, longitude -2.90707, in the SY5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422F404790
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 488
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 2016.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A488 in Shropshire, 14 March 2016
9 m awayRef 2016220072618
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A488 in Shropshire, 12 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025221684829
Slight
Car crash on the A488 in Shropshire, 28 January 2011
10 m awayRef 201122F100429
Serious
Car crash on the A488 in Shropshire, 2 March 1979
10 m awayRef 1979220603005
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A488 in Shropshire, 6 October 2004
20 m awayRef 200422FB41113
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A488 in Shropshire, 12 March 1998
64 m awayRef 199822FL00862
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBF125M
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBF125M)
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 201422F404790 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Shropshire road accident statistics for 2014.