A4311 crash in Swindon on 7 July 1992 at 22:45 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4311 in Swindon at 22:45 on Tuesday 7 July 1992. The 21-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 1992
- Tuesday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki and Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57176, longitude -1.77775, in the SN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199254DN03992
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4311
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 12 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199854DN02848
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 28 July 1995
At the same spotRef 199554DN05075
Serious
Mazda 626 crash on a C road in Swindon, 29 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199854DN04538
Slight
Bus crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 22 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199654DN05516
Slight
Car crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 6 March 1989
32 m awayRef 198954DN00539
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Swindon, 17 September 1981
36 m awayRef 198154DD09501
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 592 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki)
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 199254DN03992 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swindon road accident statistics for 1992.