Serious A44 crash in Herefordshire on 30 May 2023 at 14:30 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
A Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, a Kawasaki ER motorcycle and a Suzuki Alto were involved in a crash on the A44 in Herefordshire at 14:30 on Tuesday 30 May 2023. The 34-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ER 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
- 30 May 2023
- Tuesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Land Rover Range Rover Evoque and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22706, longitude -2.74233, in the HR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leominster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leominster South, Herefordshire, HR6 8EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Herefordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023221313138
- Council area
- Herefordshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 4361
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 2023.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 7 August 2023
5 m awayRef 2023221357200
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 15 March 2024
7 m awayRef 2024221422000
Slight
Car crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 25 February 1983
13 m awayRef 1983220502029
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 24 August 2021
15 m awayRef 2021221080712
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 20 December 2021
16 m awayRef 2021221131662
Serious
Triumph crash on the A44 in Herefordshire, 6 August 1995
17 m awayRef 199522ET08872
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ER
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 649 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Suzuki Alto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ER)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2023221313138 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 2023.