A435 crash in Cotswold on 12 December 2020 at 13:08 involving a Triumph Tiger motorcycle
A Triumph Tiger motorcycle and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A435 in Cotswold at 13:08 on Saturday 12 December 2020. The 65-year-old male rider of the Triumph Tiger motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2020
- Saturday, 13:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Triumph Tiger and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81761, longitude -1.99961, in the GL53 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020531008387
- Council area
- Cotswold
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 435
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 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, 19 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 February 1996.
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A435 in Cotswold, 10 February 1996
19 m awayRef 1996530AI0171
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A435 in Cotswold, 11 December 1998
23 m awayRef 1998530AI1981
Serious
Toyota Starlet crash on the A435 in Cotswold, 27 August 2013
28 m awayRef 2013530208190
Serious
Mitsubishi L200 crash on the A435 in Cotswold, 3 August 2025
34 m awayRef 2025531629042
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A435 in Cotswold, 5 January 1998
101 m awayRef 1998530AI0035
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A435 in Cotswold, 14 January 2013
109 m awayRef 2013530207645
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Triumph Tiger
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,050 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,188 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 65, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Triumph Tiger)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020531008387 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cotswold road accident statistics for 2020.