B4461 crash in South Gloucestershire on 24 February 2014 at 09:15 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A motorcycle and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the B4461 in South Gloucestershire at 09:15 on Monday 24 February 2014. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 2014
- Monday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59574, longitude -2.56975, in the BS35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014521401563
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4461
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4461 in South Gloucestershire, 3 November 1997
13 m awayRef 1997520094942
Slight
Car crash on the B4461 in South Gloucestershire, 14 December 1985
24 m awayRef 198552DT02374
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4461 in South Gloucestershire, 12 October 1980
33 m awayRef 198052DFT1627
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 25 September 1982
37 m awayRef 198252DFT1577
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the B4461 in South Gloucestershire, 17 November 1995
133 m awayRef 19955295E4375
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the B4461 in South Gloucestershire, 5 July 1994
133 m awayRef 19945294E2539
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (50cc 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 2014521401563 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 2014.