Serious B4056 crash in South Gloucestershire on 17 November 2002 at 13:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B4056 in South Gloucestershire at 13:45 on Sunday 17 November 2002. The 30-year-old male rider of the 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
- 17 Nov 2002
- Sunday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5051, longitude -2.58436, in the BS34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Filton.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002520157538
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4056
- 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
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 2 May 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the B4056 in South Gloucestershire, 2 May 1982
At the same spotRef 198252DFI0701
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4056 in South Gloucestershire, 5 December 1980
At the same spotRef 198052DFI1961
Serious
Car crash on the B4056 in South Gloucestershire, 2 January 1981
At the same spotRef 198152DFI0006
Slight
Car crash on the B4056 in South Gloucestershire, 11 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198852DS00517
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Nissan X-Trail crash on the B4056 in South Gloucestershire, 26 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025522600720
Slight
Renault Captur crash on the B4056 in South Gloucestershire, 27 June 2021
28 m awayRef 2021522103414
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2002520157538 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 2002.