A4601 crash in Cannock Chase on 18 September 2009 at 18:30 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Yamaha R6 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4601 in Cannock Chase at 18:30 on Friday 18 September 2009. The 29-year-old male rider of the Yamaha R6 motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2009
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Yamaha R6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68127, longitude -2.04331, in the WS11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cannock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cannock Longford & Bridgtown, Cannock Chase, WS11 1QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cannock Chase
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009219007119
- Council area
- Cannock Chase
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4601
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 1997.
Slight
Car crash on the A4601 in Cannock Chase, 6 October 1997
At the same spotRef 1997217921036
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A460 in Cannock Chase, 11 January 2017
9 m awayRef 2017210154233
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on the A4601 in Cannock Chase, 15 September 2003
10 m awayRef 2003213324134
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4601 in Cannock Chase, 8 January 2006
10 m awayRef 2006216300945
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4601 in Cannock Chase, 23 November 1999
10 m awayRef 1999219325824
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A4601 in Cannock Chase, 20 January 2025
13 m awayRef 2025211544218
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha R6
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
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 2009219007119 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cannock Chase road accident statistics for 2009.