A368 crash in Bath and North East Somerset on 16 November 2005 at 18:22 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset at 18:22 on Wednesday 16 November 2005. The 38-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 2005
- Wednesday, 18:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3421, longitude -2.57812, in the BS39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bath and North East Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005520151734
- Council area
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 368
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 38%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 62%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 June 1996.
Serious
Renault crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 20 June 1996
20 m awayRef 19965296F2340
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 26 June 2017
22 m awayRef 2017521704840
Serious
Car crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 26 July 2012
23 m awayRef 2012521204958
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 4 September 2010
73 m awayRef 2010521007318
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 9 June 2025
93 m awayRef 2025520001969
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 20 September 2022
93 m awayRef 2022522300223
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
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
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 2005520151734 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bath and North East Somerset road accident statistics for 2005.