A435 crash in Bromsgrove on 8 November 2014 at 05:45 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the A435 in Bromsgrove at 05:45 on Saturday 8 November 2014. The 64-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 2014
- Saturday, 05:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39993, longitude -1.89179, in the B38 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromsgrove
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422D404275
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 435
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 1999.
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A435 in Redditch, 8 February 1999
14 m awayRef 199922BY00252
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 3 March 1997
22 m awayRef 199722BZ00667
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 7 May 2008
36 m awayRef 200822DE88384
Serious
Van crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 5 June 1981
40 m awayRef 1981220206005
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 27 February 1995
78 m awayRef 199522BE01362
Serious
Leyland crash on the A435 in Bromsgrove, 12 March 1994
108 m awayRef 1994220203002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
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
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 64, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 201422D404275 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromsgrove road accident statistics for 2014.