Serious A435 crash in Bromsgrove on 14 June 2008 at 06:30 involving a Yamaha R6 motorcycle
A Yamaha R6 motorcycle crashed on the A435 in Bromsgrove at 06:30 on Saturday 14 June 2008. The 28-year-old male rider was seriously injured and a 29-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Jun 2008
- Saturday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha R6
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.32304, longitude -1.86748, in the B98 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromsgrove
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822DE88529
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 435
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 2011.
Slight
Alfa Romeo Mito crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 26 November 2011
14 m awayRef 201122D105054
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 6 December 2023
17 m awayRef 2023221383812
Slight
Piaggio crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 16 June 1997
20 m awayRef 199722BH01963
Slight
Alfa Romeo 164 crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 6 December 1998
22 m awayRef 199822BK03483
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Bromsgrove, 9 January 1981
36 m awayRef 1981220201001
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 19 April 2004
51 m awayRef 200422DL37518
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha R6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha R6)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha R6)
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 200822DE88529 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromsgrove road accident statistics for 2008.