Serious unclassified road crash in Solihull B37 on 6 June 2013 at 17:29 involving a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle and an Audi A6 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Solihull at 17:29 on Thursday 6 June 2013. The 30-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jun 2013
- Thursday, 17:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki SV 650 and Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47927, longitude -1.74612, in the B37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fordbridge, Solihull, B37 5FD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201320L004143
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2004.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 18 November 2004
10 m awayRef 200420L202301
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 10 August 2004
14 m awayRef 200420L140001
Slight
Peugeot 3008 crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 4 April 2015
14 m awayRef 201520L003535
Slight
Audi TT crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 24 December 2010
20 m awayRef 201020L012370
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 15 March 1999
22 m awayRef 199920L030301
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 21 April 2001
22 m awayRef 200120L133101
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 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 201320L004143 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2013.