A34 crash in Solihull on 28 June 2008 at 10:50 involving a Kawasaki ZX1000 motorcycle
A car and a Kawasaki ZX1000 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A34 in Solihull at 10:50 on Saturday 28 June 2008. The 37-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX1000 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jun 2008
- Saturday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kawasaki ZX1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39796, longitude -1.81978, in the B90 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shirley South, Solihull, B90 4LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820L110301
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 October 2007.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A34 in Solihull, 11 October 2007
At the same spotRef 200720L165501
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A34 in Solihull, 19 April 2005
At the same spotRef 200520L074101
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A34 in Solihull, 6 April 2013
At the same spotRef 201320L003033
Slight
Volkswagen Arteon crash on the A34 in Solihull, 18 October 2020
6 m awayRef 2020201003131
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the A34 in Solihull, 5 July 2007
14 m awayRef 200720L112001
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A34 in Solihull, 30 August 2000
20 m awayRef 200020L084301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX1000)
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 200820L110301 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.