Serious B4128 crash in Solihull on 7 December 2004 at 17:00 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4128 in Solihull at 17:00 on Tuesday 7 December 2004. The 34-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Dec 2004
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Suzuki SV 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48344, longitude -1.75862, in the B37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Glebe Farm & Tile Cross, Birmingham, B33 0BE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420L221601
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4128
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 2005.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 13 August 2005
At the same spotRef 200520L152801
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the B4128 in Solihull, 19 February 2004
At the same spotRef 200420L035101
Slight
Lorry crash on the B4128 in Solihull, 22 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200420L057101
Slight
Volkswagen T-Roc crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 14 November 2024
4 m awayRef 2024201516496
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B4128 in Solihull, 20 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199920L065201
Serious
Piaggio Fly crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 29 December 2010
10 m awayRef 201020L012380
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki SV 650)
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 200420L221601 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2004.