B4521 crash in Herefordshire on 2 October 2017 at 19:32 involving a Honda GLR 125 motorcycle
A Honda GLR 125 motorcycle crashed on the B4521 in Herefordshire at 19:32 on Monday 2 October 2017. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 2017
- Monday, 19:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda GLR 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89473, longitude -2.73249, in the HR2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220244558
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4521
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 466
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 January 1990.
Slight
Peugeot 504 crash on the B4521 in Herefordshire, 6 January 1990
15 m awayRef 1990220501018
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A466 in Herefordshire, 4 October 1993
22 m awayRef 1993220510004
Slight
Renault 18 crash on the A466 in Herefordshire, 16 December 1993
22 m awayRef 1993220512043
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A466 in Herefordshire, 29 April 2024
24 m awayRef 2024221439936
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A466 in Herefordshire, 8 February 2004
25 m awayRef 200422EC27546
Serious
Car crash on the A466 in Herefordshire, 27 April 1986
30 m awayRef 1986220504047
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda GLR 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda GLR 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2017220244558 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 2017.