Serious unclassified road crash in Rugby CV21 on 16 November 1990 at 19:30 involving a Vauxhall Carlton
A Vauxhall Carlton and a Kawasaki EX500 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rugby at 19:30 on Friday 16 November 1990. The 22-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki EX500 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Nov 1990
- Friday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Carlton and Kawasaki EX500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37307, longitude -1.27493, in the CV21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rugby.
Map of where the crash happened in Rugby
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990239002280
- Council area
- Rugby
- Police force
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki EX500
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki EX500)
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 1990239002280 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rugby road accident statistics for 1990.