Serious unclassified road crash in Gloucester GL1 on 23 August 2004 at 18:50 involving a Suzuki AY 50 motorcycle
A Suzuki AY 50 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Gloucester at 18:50 on Monday 23 August 2004. The 16-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Aug 2004
- Monday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki AY 50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.84489, longitude -2.25429, in the GL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Moreland, Gloucester, GL1 5HT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004530AI3054
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2005.
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Bus crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 7 June 1991
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Bus crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 23 June 1993
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Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 29 January 1994
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Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 3 March 2000
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki AY 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki AY 50)
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 2004530AI3054 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2004.