A465 crash in Herefordshire on 14 May 2015 at 16:30 involving a Subaru Impreza
A motorcycle and a Subaru Impreza were involved in a crash on the A465 in Herefordshire at 16:30 on Thursday 14 May 2015. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 2015
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Subaru Impreza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04176, longitude -2.73944, in the HR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belmont Rural, Herefordshire, HR2 7UG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201522E501946
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Raining, 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 1991.
Slight
Bedford crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 12 September 1991
10 m awayRef 1991220509031
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 12 August 1980
10 m awayRef 1980220508029
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 21 October 2009
14 m awayRef 200922E905989
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 10 May 1993
14 m awayRef 1993220505006
Serious
Rover 600 Series crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 28 October 2007
20 m awayRef 200722EA86572
Slight
Lorry crash on the A465 in Herefordshire, 14 July 1989
22 m awayRef 1989220507070
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,457 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, 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 201522E501946 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.