Serious A272 crash in Winchester on 2 October 2011 at 13:06 involving a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle
A Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle crashed on the A272 in Winchester at 13:06 on Sunday 2 October 2011. The 64-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
- 2 Oct 2011
- Sunday, 13:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha YZF R1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04534, longitude -1.24535, in the SO21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Winchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011440418531
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 1991.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A31 in Winchester, 9 March 1991
At the same spotRef 1991440OC0191
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the A272 in Winchester, 2 February 2025
8 m awayRef 2025440049708
Serious
Toyota IQ crash on the A272 in Winchester, 12 May 2010
10 m awayRef 2010440192993
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A272 in Winchester, 1 February 2011
10 m awayRef 2011440045354
Slight
Lorry crash on the A272 in Winchester, 12 February 1979
10 m awayRef 1979440CA0017
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A272 in Winchester, 11 May 1980
10 m awayRef 1980440OA0030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF R1
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 64, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (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 2011440418531 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 2011.