Serious A4440 crash in Wychavon on 4 May 2014 at 12:45 involving a Suzuki GSF 1200 motorcycle
A motorcycle and a Suzuki GSF 1200 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4440 in Wychavon at 12:45 on Sunday 4 May 2014. The 55-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 4 May 2014
- Sunday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Suzuki GSF 1200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17157, longitude -2.18743, in the WR5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Drakes Broughton, Norton & Whittington, Wychavon, WR5 2QZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422C401647
- Council area
- Wychavon
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4440
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 2014.
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A4440 in Wychavon, 29 June 2014
14 m awayRef 201422C402447
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 11 June 1994
14 m awayRef 199422CV08299
Serious
John Deere 6100 Series crash on the A4440 in Wychavon, 8 January 2019
22 m awayRef 2019220354727
Serious
Car crash on the A422 in Worcester, 8 June 1990
22 m awayRef 1990220306016
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A4440 in Wychavon, 16 February 2007
28 m awayRef 200722CA85521
Slight
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the A4440 in Wychavon, 9 February 2014
32 m awayRef 201422C400570
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 942 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSF 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,157 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201422C401647 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wychavon road accident statistics for 2014.