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Serious A28 crash in Ashford on 12 March 1994 at 16:15 involving a Suzuki motorcycle

A Suzuki motorcycle and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A28 in Ashford at 16:15 on Saturday 12 March 1994. The 28-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
12 Mar 1994
Saturday, 16:15
Vehicles
2
Suzuki and other vehicle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08063, longitude 0.69476, in the TN30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tenterden.

Map of where the crash happened in Ashford

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1994461015580
Council area
Ashford
Police force
Kent
Highway authority
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
28
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Other 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
Daylight
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 September 1991.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Suzuki

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    28 years
    Engine capacity
    548 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    16 years

  • Vehicle 2: Other vehicle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    41 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 28, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 1994461015580 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashford road accident statistics for 1994.