Unclassified road crash in South Gloucestershire BS37 on 2 June 2001 at 13:10 involving a Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire at 13:10 on Saturday 2 June 2001. The 56-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jun 2001
- Saturday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR 750
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53054, longitude -2.41544, in the BS37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Yate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dodington, South Gloucestershire, BS37 4LQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001520073512
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 8 February 1988
At the same spotRef 198852DC00252
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 7 December 1989
At the same spotRef 198952DC02101
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 12 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025522600652
Serious
Iveco crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 9 April 1991
10 m awayRef 19915291N5903
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 19 January 1999
10 m awayRef 1999520009636
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 25 January 1999
10 m awayRef 1999520013897
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 750
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 750)
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 2001520073512 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 2001.