A4104 crash in Malvern Hills on 26 April 2012 at 16:05 involving a Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle crashed on the A4104 in Malvern Hills at 16:05 on Thursday 26 April 2012. The 50-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 2012
- Thursday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR 1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05776, longitude -2.22823, in the WR8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222C201917
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4104
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A4104 in the Malvern Hills, 14 October 1986
14 m awayRef 1986220310034
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A4104 in the Malvern Hills, 3 May 1990
32 m awayRef 1990220305016
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4104 in the Malvern Hills, 3 May 1983
36 m awayRef 1983220305026
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A4104 in the Malvern Hills, 12 March 2009
36 m awayRef 200922C901443
Serious
Car crash on the A4104 in the Malvern Hills, 10 February 1989
54 m awayRef 1989220302052
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A4104 in the Malvern Hills, 8 July 1990
54 m awayRef 1990220307068
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 50, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 1000)
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 201222C201917 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Malvern Hills road accident statistics for 2012.