C road crash in Cheltenham GL52 on 20 August 1993 at 23:10 involving a Datsun Cherry
A Datsun Cherry and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Cheltenham at 23:10 on Friday 20 August 1993. The 17-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Aug 1993
- Friday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Datsun Cherry and Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90885, longitude -2.06566, in the GL52 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993530AI1199
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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: Datsun Cherry
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 1993530AI1199 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheltenham road accident statistics for 1993.