Serious A345 crash in Wiltshire on 21 November 2014 at 18:36 involving a Toyota Auris
A Toyota Auris and a Pulse XF 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A345 in Wiltshire at 18:36 on Friday 21 November 2014. The 17-year-old male rider of the Pulse XF 125 motorcycle was seriously injured and a 28-year-old male passenger in the Toyota Auris was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 2014
- Friday, 18:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Auris and Pulse XF 125
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33985, longitude -1.76602, in the SN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pewsey.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201454A475614
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 345
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 2022.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 28 January 2022
5 m awayRef 2022540982722
Slight
Car crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 27 April 1983
7 m awayRef 198354AP01633
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 9 November 2018
9 m awayRef 201854A636518
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 16 November 1984
15 m awayRef 198454AP05424
Slight
Car crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 9 January 1979
16 m awayRef 197954AP00189
Serious
Car crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 1 October 1988
59 m awayRef 198854AP01508
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Pulse XF 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Pulse XF 125)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Auris)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201454A475614 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 2014.