Serious B4379 crash in Shropshire on 25 July 2019 at 16:58 involving a BMW 4 Series
A motorcycle and a BMW 4 Series were involved in a crash on the B4379 in Shropshire at 16:58 on Thursday 25 July 2019. The 39-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
- 25 Jul 2019
- Thursday, 16:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and BMW 4 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69877, longitude -2.35787, in the TF11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019220864313
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4379
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1998.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4379 in Telford and Wrekin, 25 November 1998
11 m awayRef 199822GE05065
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the B4379 in Shropshire, 22 June 1992
16 m awayRef 1992220806020
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4379 in Shropshire, 3 August 1984
63 m awayRef 1984220708002
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B4379 in Shropshire, 4 September 2002
74 m awayRef 200222GB26913
Serious
Car crash on the B4379 in Shropshire, 26 May 1979
110 m awayRef 1979220705048
Slight
Morris Marina crash on the B4379 in Shropshire, 23 July 1992
286 m awayRef 1992220807032
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 4 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 39, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2019220864313 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 2019.