Serious A272 crash in Winchester on 17 February 2009 at 12:25 involving a BMW F 650 GS motorcycle
A BMW F 650 GS motorcycle crashed on the A272 in Winchester at 12:25 on Tuesday 17 February 2009. The 69-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Feb 2009
- Tuesday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW F 650 GS
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13596, longitude -1.37737, in the SO21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009440070968
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 95%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 5%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 September 2014.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A272 in Winchester, 1 September 2014
4 m awayRef 2014440316276
Serious
Yamaha TW 125 crash on the A272 in Winchester, 3 January 2007
14 m awayRef 2007440003876
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3420 in Test Valley, 7 April 1993
22 m awayRef 1993440NG0037
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A272 in Winchester, 4 October 2000
130 m awayRef 2000440OL1448
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the B3420 in Winchester, 17 September 1992
158 m awayRef 1992440OC0661
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Winchester, 30 December 2004
194 m awayRef 2004440OC1887
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW F 650 GS
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 652 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 69, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW F 650 GS)
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 2009440070968 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 2009.