A435 crash in Stratford-on-Avon on 24 January 2018 at 06:50 involving a Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle
A goods vehicle and a Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon at 06:50 on Wednesday 24 January 2018. The 28-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2018
- Wednesday, 06:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Goods vehicle and Suzuki GSXR 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23294, longitude -1.88116, in the B49 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018230265350
- Council area
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 435
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2008.
Slight
Ford New Holland crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 23 January 2008
51 m awayRef 2008230890104
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 27 December 2025
66 m awayRef 2025231689566
Serious
Car crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 13 June 1979
80 m awayRef 1979230000891
Serious
Car crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 5 November 1985
118 m awayRef 1985238501882
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 7 August 1993
120 m awayRef 1993239301339
Serious
Lorry crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 1 June 1989
122 m awayRef 1989238901108
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSXR 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSXR 600)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2018230265350 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stratford-on-Avon road accident statistics for 2018.