Serious B4211 crash in Malvern Hills on 29 May 2005 at 21:25 involving a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle crashed on the B4211 in Malvern Hills at 21:25 on Sunday 29 May 2005. The 34-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 May 2005
- Sunday, 21:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSF 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04967, longitude -2.22921, in the WR8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200522CC47849
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4211
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 serious injury crash on 6 March 1985.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4211 in the Malvern Hills, 6 March 1985
14 m awayRef 1985220303037
Slight
Honda crash on the B4211 in the Malvern Hills, 25 September 1994
95 m awayRef 199422CX13660
Slight
Car crash on the B4211 in the Malvern Hills, 3 June 1984
99 m awayRef 1984220306014
Slight
Volvo 480 crash on the A4211 in the Malvern Hills, 14 April 2002
142 m awayRef 200222CC28968
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B4211 in the Malvern Hills, 12 November 2005
143 m awayRef 200522CC50901
Serious
Honda City Fly CLR 125 crash on the B4211 in the Malvern Hills, 13 April 2003
253 m awayRef 200322CC34600
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSF 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 600)
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 200522CC47849 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Malvern Hills road accident statistics for 2005.