Serious B4371 crash in Shropshire on 21 March 2015 at 15:20 involving a Honda CBR1000RR motorcycle
A Honda CBR1000RR motorcycle crashed on the B4371 in Shropshire at 15:20 on Saturday 21 March 2015. The 29-year-old male rider 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
- 21 Mar 2015
- Saturday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR1000RR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53022, longitude -2.70915, in the SY6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201522F501121
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4371
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2004.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B4371 in Shropshire, 21 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200422FD37838
Serious
Car crash on the B4371 in Shropshire, 26 October 1979
60 m awayRef 1979220110075
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B4371 in Shropshire, 1 May 1996
76 m awayRef 199622FJ03229
Serious
Car crash on the B4371 in Shropshire, 7 November 1985
173 m awayRef 1985220111034
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4371 in Shropshire, 3 January 1981
228 m awayRef 1981220101020
Slight
Car crash on the B4371 in Shropshire, 12 May 1988
261 m awayRef 1988220505024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR1000RR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR1000RR)
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 201522F501121 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Shropshire road accident statistics for 2015.