C road crash in Tewkesbury GL3 on 3 May 2014 at 17:48 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Tewkesbury at 17:48 on Saturday 3 May 2014. The 46-year-old male rider of the Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 2014
- Saturday, 17:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Harley-Davidson FLS
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87972, longitude -2.17935, in the GL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Churchdown. It is one of the crashes that make up the Churchdown Brookfield with Hucclecote, Tewkesbury, GL3 2JL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tewkesbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014530208664
- Council area
- Tewkesbury
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2005.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in Tewkesbury, 20 October 2005
3 m awayRef 2005530184764
Slight
Daewoo Lanos crash on a C road in Tewkesbury, 19 December 2009
12 m awayRef 2009530200379
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on a C road in Tewkesbury, 4 November 2015
38 m awayRef 2015530209963
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tewkesbury, 25 October 1987
39 m awayRef 1987530BI0665
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Tewkesbury, 18 June 1990
39 m awayRef 1990530BI0352
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tewkesbury, 7 October 1981
39 m awayRef 1981530WI0647
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Harley-Davidson FLS
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,550 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Harley-Davidson FLS)
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 2014530208664 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tewkesbury road accident statistics for 2014.