Serious unclassified road crash in Gloucester GL4 on 16 March 2017 at 14:37 involving a Lexmoto ZSF 125 motorcycle
Four vehicles, including a Lexmoto ZSF 125 motorcycle and a BMW X5, were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester at 14:37 on Thursday 16 March 2017. The 19-year-old male rider of the Lexmoto ZSF 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Mar 2017
- Thursday, 14:37
- Vehicles
- 4
- Lexmoto ZSF 125 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85359, longitude -2.20189, in the GL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnwood, Gloucester, GL4 4RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017530167718
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 1995.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Gloucester, 14 August 1995
1 m awayRef 1995530BI1493
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Gloucester, 26 July 1995
1 m awayRef 1995530BI1381
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on a C road in Gloucester, 21 June 2012
12 m awayRef 2012530206930
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Gloucester, 14 January 1993
14 m awayRef 1993530BI0067
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on a C road in Gloucester, 6 March 2000
14 m awayRef 2000530AI0435
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Gloucester, 5 November 1992
14 m awayRef 1992530BI2066
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto ZSF 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 62 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto ZSF 125)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017530167718 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2017.