A38 crash in Gloucester on 7 November 2014 at 13:30 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the A38 in Gloucester at 13:30 on Friday 7 November 2014. The 48-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2014
- Friday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85633, longitude -2.22221, in the GL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coney Hill, Gloucester, GL4 6PD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014530209099
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 2007.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 13 June 2007
6 m awayRef 2007530191220
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 12 April 1984
8 m awayRef 1984530BI0222
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 25 November 1988
8 m awayRef 1988530BI0780
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 29 June 1994
8 m awayRef 1994530BI1143
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 25 July 2000
8 m awayRef 2000530AI2258
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 16 April 1985
8 m awayRef 1985530BI0204
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 2014530209099 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2014.