Serious B4368 crash in Shropshire on 3 April 2004 at 13:52 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4368 in Shropshire at 13:52 on Saturday 3 April 2004. A 28-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 33-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Apr 2004
- Saturday, 13:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49969, longitude -2.6829, in the SY7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200422FD38050
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4368
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 117 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2004.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B4368 in Shropshire, 11 November 2004
117 m awayRef 200422FD41655
Serious
Lorry crash on the B4368 in Shropshire, 1 February 1982
175 m awayRef 1982220102007
Slight
Lorry crash on the B4368 in Shropshire, 18 August 1980
184 m awayRef 1980220108049
Serious
Car crash on the B4368 in Shropshire, 20 September 1979
206 m awayRef 1979220109048
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B4368 in Shropshire, 3 April 1999
208 m awayRef 199922FB01382
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4368 in Shropshire, 6 March 2005
216 m awayRef 200522FD43277
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 28, 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 200422FD38050 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Shropshire road accident statistics for 2004.