A6097 crash in Gedling on 27 July 2008 at 20:00 involving a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A6097 in Gedling at 20:00 on Sunday 27 July 2008. The 32-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jul 2008
- Sunday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha YZF R1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02461, longitude -1.03235, in the NG14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gedling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20083102D1960
- Council area
- Gedling
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6097
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 March 1990.
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the A6097 in Gedling, 7 March 1990
22 m awayRef 1990317K20180
Serious
Nissan Note crash on the A6097 in Gedling, 26 June 2025
60 m awayRef 2025311607809
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A6097 in Gedling, 20 June 1993
67 m awayRef 1993317K41464
Slight
Car crash on the A6097 in Gedling, 20 June 1988
85 m awayRef 1988317K20392
Slight
Smart Fortwo crash on the A6097 in Gedling, 22 April 2013
86 m awayRef 201331D086413
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A6097 in Gedling, 5 February 2001
102 m awayRef 20013108B0197
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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: Yamaha YZF R1
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R1)
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 20083102D1960 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gedling road accident statistics for 2008.