A465 crash in Herefordshire on 9 February 2015 at 15:50 involving a Sym Jet motorcycle
A Sym Jet motorcycle crashed on the A465 in Herefordshire at 15:50 on Monday 9 February 2015. The 16-year-old female rider 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
- 9 Feb 2015
- Monday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Sym Jet
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04444, longitude -2.72869, in the HR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Red Hill, Herefordshire, HR2 7RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201522E500594
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 465
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2008.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 8 January 2008
At the same spotRef 200822EA86902
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 7 October 2003
10 m awayRef 200322EA26075
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 8 December 2006
10 m awayRef 200622EA85166
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 6 March 2004
14 m awayRef 200422EA27719
Fatal
Iveco-Ford crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 7 February 2011
14 m awayRef 201122E100540
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 28 February 1997
20 m awayRef 199722EN01025
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Sym Jet
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Sym Jet)
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 201522E500594 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Herefordshire road accident statistics for 2015.