Serious unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV14 on 14 June 2004 at 16:40 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Kawasaki ZR1200 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 16:40 on Monday 14 June 2004. The 60-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZR1200 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
- 14 Jun 2004
- Monday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Kawasaki ZR1200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57725, longitude -2.07183, in the WV14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bilston North, Wolverhampton, WV13 3EL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wolverhampton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420G045702
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZR1200
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 60, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZR1200)
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 200420G045702 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 2004.