A web designer from Crewe lost control of his Honda superbike on Tarvin Road, Chester, and collided with a bollard an inquest heard

Dec 31 2009 Chester Chronicle

AN EXPERIENCED motorcyclist died days before his 45th birthday after losing control of his machine and colliding with a bollard.

Web designer Adrian Clive Robinson, 44, of Melford Close, Crewe, was overtaking a petrol tanker on the A51, Tarvin Road, near Vicars Cross Golf Club, when he slammed on the front brakes of his powerful Honda Blackbird bike and was thrown into a nearby bollard.

An inquest into IT expert Mr Robinson’s death, at Chester Magistrates Court on Tuesday, heard he regularly rode his ‘dream’ bike to work in Liverpool.

Speaking about the fatal crash, which happened at about 7.35am on Friday, June 12, collision investigator Guy Hopley, of Cheshire police, said it was a mystery as to why Mr Robinson was forced to do an emergency stop

“The vehicle was travelling towards Chester and was over taking a line of traffic,” he said.

“The motorcycle did not suffer a collision before it fell.

“Emergency breaking locked the front wheel causing the motorcycle to fall.”

Witness Bryan Jones, of Knowsley Road, Hoole, Chester, who was travelling in the opposite direction towards Tarvin, said: “I saw the bike starting to wobble and lose control, I didn’t see what caused that to happen.

“The rider rolled and hit the first bollard, which collapsed under the impact, and he came to rest against the second bollard in the reservation.”

An ambulance was called to the scene and took Mr Robinson to the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Coroner Geoffrey Roberts concluded Mr Robinson suffered ‘an uncontrollable haemorrhage as a result of the trauma to the liver and to the right kidney’.

He recorded a verdict of ‘accidental death’ following a ‘very unfortunate accident’.