Serious A40 crash in Cheltenham on 8 October 2014 at 13:24 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A40 in Cheltenham at 13:24 on Wednesday 8 October 2014. The 18-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Oct 2014
- Wednesday, 13:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89642, longitude -2.1136, in the GL51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mark's, Cheltenham, GL51 7DP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheltenham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014530209028
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2016.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 9 December 2016
4 m awayRef 2016530160178
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 30 March 2005
6 m awayRef 2005530181556
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 26 September 2009
10 m awayRef 2009530199152
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 29 September 1981
11 m awayRef 1981530NI0640
Fatal
Honda Pes 125 crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 23 August 2015
12 m awayRef 2015530209811
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 12 January 1979
19 m awayRef 1979530NI0026
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 114 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 18, 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 2014530209028 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheltenham road accident statistics for 2014.