Unclassified road crash in Herefordshire HR4 on 3 February 2016 at 07:00 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 and a Suzuki GSF 1200 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire at 07:00 on Wednesday 3 February 2016. The 52-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSF 1200 motorcycle 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
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 2016
- Wednesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 25 and Suzuki GSF 1200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05957, longitude -2.71472, in the HR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hereford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Herefordshire, HR4 9EE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016220051282
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- B
- Second road number
- 4359
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 September 1999.
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the B4359 in Herefordshire, 30 September 1999
8 m awayRef 199922EA11063
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 8 December 1997
8 m awayRef 199722ET05514
Slight
Car crash on the B4359 in Herefordshire, 28 February 1986
8 m awayRef 1986220502043
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 3 March 2009
10 m awayRef 200922E901327
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 24 November 2003
10 m awayRef 200322EA26621
Slight
Car crash on the B4359 in Herefordshire, 13 August 1986
13 m awayRef 1986220508027
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSF 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,157 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSF 1200)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2016220051282 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 2016.