C road crash in Tewkesbury GL52 on 12 November 2004 at 17:39 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in Tewkesbury at 17:39 on Friday 12 November 2004. The 53-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2004
- Friday, 17:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92788, longitude -2.04229, in the GL52 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southam.
Map of where the crash happened in Tewkesbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004530AI4084
- Council area
- Tewkesbury
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tewkesbury, 2 March 1979
41 m awayRef 1979530NI0121
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Tewkesbury, 26 May 2011
81 m awayRef 2011530204534
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tewkesbury, 20 January 1981
100 m awayRef 1981530NI0045
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Tewkesbury, 13 September 2008
102 m awayRef 2008530196123
Serious
Bus crash on the A46 in Tewkesbury, 15 February 1980
110 m awayRef 1980530NI0083
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on a C road in Tewkesbury, 7 October 2004
114 m awayRef 2004530AI3731
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 487 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 2004530AI4084 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tewkesbury road accident statistics for 2004.