Unclassified road crash in Solihull B90 on 31 May 2008 at 22:52 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A bicycle and a Kawasaki motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Solihull at 22:52 on Saturday 31 May 2008. The 19-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2008
- Saturday, 22:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40339, longitude -1.84431, in the B90 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shirley West, Solihull, B90 1BB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820L093801
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 2001.
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 13 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200120L273801
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 6 February 2005
At the same spotRef 200520L024701
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 20 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200320L520501
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Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 11 August 2006
10 m awayRef 200620L127901
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 1 November 1988
14 m awayRef 19882000L0884
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 9 March 1987
14 m awayRef 19872000L0193
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,015 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 19, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200820L093801 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2008.