C road crash in Cambridge CB2 on 5 March 2011 at 13:45 involving a BMW F 650 GS motorcycle
A BMW F 650 GS motorcycle crashed on a C road in Cambridge at 13:45 on Saturday 5 March 2011. The 30-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2011
- Saturday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW F 650 GS
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20835, longitude 0.11849, in the CB2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 3AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011350416511
- Council area
- Cambridge
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 2009.
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Serious
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Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Cambridge, 26 August 1999
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW F 650 GS
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 30, 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 2011350416511 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cambridge road accident statistics for 2011.