Serious A4104 crash in Wychavon on 5 May 2008 at 15:05 involving a Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the A4104 in Wychavon at 15:05 on Monday 5 May 2008. The 21-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 May 2008
- Monday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSXR 750 and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10632, longitude -2.09093, in the WR10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822CA88050
- Council area
- Wychavon
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4104
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4536
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4104 in Wychavon, 17 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199822CW00710
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4104 in Wychavon, 28 August 1993
10 m awayRef 1993220308032
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A4104 in Wychavon, 16 July 1993
10 m awayRef 1993220307019
Slight
Scania crash on the A4104 in Wychavon, 11 June 2003
14 m awayRef 200322CD36162
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A4104 in Wychavon, 3 June 2011
14 m awayRef 201122C102393
Serious
Lorry crash on the A4104 in Wychavon, 14 September 1984
14 m awayRef 1984220309027
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 750
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 750)
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 200822CA88050 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wychavon road accident statistics for 2008.