Serious B4696 crash in Wiltshire on 1 September 2011 at 19:32 involving a Suzuki GSF 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSF 650 motorcycle crashed on the B4696 in Wiltshire at 19:32 on Thursday 1 September 2011. The 35-year-old female rider was seriously injured and a 41-year-old male passenger was slightly 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
- 1 Sep 2011
- Thursday, 19:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSF 650
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58799, longitude -1.91971, in the SN5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011547588111
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4696
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 2019.
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the B4696 in Wiltshire, 26 March 2019
7 m awayRef 2019542958619
Slight
Foden crash on the B4696 in Wiltshire, 9 March 2010
10 m awayRef 201054EO06610
Serious
Renault 21 crash on the B4696 in Wiltshire, 29 December 1994
41 m awayRef 199454DH08444
Slight
Car crash on the B4696 in Wiltshire, 17 March 1987
41 m awayRef 198754DH00767
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4696 in Wiltshire, 3 May 1995
41 m awayRef 199554DH02645
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4696 in Wiltshire, 17 January 2025
42 m awayRef 2025540656125
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSF 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 656 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 650)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 41, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 650)
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 2011547588111 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 2011.