A607 crash in Charnwood on 21 May 1990 at 17:45 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Kawasaki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A607 in Charnwood at 17:45 on Monday 21 May 1990. The 17-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 May 1990
- Monday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.70191, longitude -1.06645, in the LE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Syston.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990339003805
- Council area
- Charnwood
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 607
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1990.
Slight
MG Maestro crash on the A607 in Charnwood, 20 December 1990
10 m awayRef 1990339050034
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A607 in Charnwood, 25 March 1983
10 m awayRef 19833383E0200
Serious
Car crash on the A607 in Charnwood, 14 March 1989
10 m awayRef 19893389S0084
Serious
Nissan 350 crash on a C road in Charnwood, 4 August 2008
14 m awayRef 2008330804997
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A607 in Charnwood, 22 March 1990
14 m awayRef 1990339002346
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on a C road in Charnwood, 8 July 2003
14 m awayRef 2003330305194
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki)
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 1990339003805 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Charnwood road accident statistics for 1990.