B4220 crash in Herefordshire on 12 February 2020 at 08:44 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4220 in Herefordshire at 08:44 on Wednesday 12 February 2020. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2020
- Wednesday, 08:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09641, longitude -2.43075, in the HR8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020220930208
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4220
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 March 2004.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4220 in Herefordshire, 8 March 2004
9 m awayRef 200422ED27761
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B4220 in the Malvern Hills, 1 February 1998
115 m awayRef 199822EJ00446
Slight
Optare Solo crash on the B4220 in Herefordshire, 2 September 2003
164 m awayRef 200322ED25790
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the B4220 in Herefordshire, 28 September 2012
315 m awayRef 201222E203919
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 22 October 1983
487 m awayRef 1983220310016
Slight
Subaru Justy crash on the B4220 in Herefordshire, 9 May 2001
591 m awayRef 200122ED16980
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020220930208 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 2020.